IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): CALCIO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1997CA071008
  • User Pedon ID: 97CA071008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0422
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 10105
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 34.3044434
  • Std. Longitude: -116.1661148
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet west and 900 feet south of the northeast corner
  • State: California
  • County: CA071—San Bernardino
  • MLRA: 30—Mojave Basin and Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA699—Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 34116-C3—Goat Mountain, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: AAR SES
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, thermic Typic Calciargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - CALCIO
  • PSC - 3 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Calcio
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, thermic Typic Calciargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/14/1995
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: fan piedmont
  • Landform: fan remnant
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: h strong weathered granite and a strike of 0 degrees and a dip of 0 to 0 degrees
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/14/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 27
  • Plant Association Name: Rangesite: 030XB019NV
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind and water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—3

    3—36

    36—107

    —-

    —-

    —-
    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    2

    —

    —

    776

    —

    76

    102

    —

    —

    19.4

    28.9

    11.1

    20.6

    30

    12.2

    —

    —

    CA 9099

    TWENTYNINE PALMS

    TAPS, FROST AND
    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; gravelly sandy loam; strong thick platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 30.0 very fine and fine high-continuity vesicular pores; 20 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02543
    Btk1—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dry; sandy loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; faint reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry, clay bridges between sand grains and 40 percent distinct reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent fine irregular very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate masses throughout; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02544. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 195022; continuous - phpvsfiid 183282; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 195022; continuous - phpvsfiid 183282
    Btk2—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), pink (7.5YR 7/4), dry; coarse sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots between peds; 3.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; faint reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry, clay bridges between sand grains; 3 percent very coarse and extremely coarse spherical very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate masses; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments; slight effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02545. continuous - phpvsfiid 195023; continuous - phpvsfiid 195023
    Bkq1—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; loamy coarse sand; massive; very hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 2 percent coarse spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2) durinodes and 3 percent medium and coarse irregular weakly coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate nodules and 9 percent medium and coarse irregular very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate masses; 15 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 97P02546
    Bkq2—61 to 107 centimeters (24.0 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; coarse sand; massive; very hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine and fine roots; 15.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent coarse irregular weakly coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2) durinodes and 8 percent coarse and very coarse irregular very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate masses; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 97P02547
    2Ckq1—107 to 122 centimeters (42.1 to 48.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; coarse sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2 percent coarse and very coarse irregular weakly coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate nodules and 3 percent medium and coarse irregular weakly coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2) durinodes; 10 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments; slight effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 10.1, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P02548
    2Ckq2—122 to 183 centimeters (48.0 to 72.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; coarse sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3 percent medium and coarse irregular weakly coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2) durinodes and 2 percent medium and coarse irregular weakly coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate nodules; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 10.1, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 97P02549