IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Delphine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: CA03688SC043
  • User Pedon ID: CA03688SC043
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0105
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17021
  • Print Date: 1/10/2025

    • 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: 33.9984167
  • Std. Longitude: -119.7617222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 240—Delphine-Miasotus-Yardarm association, 30 to 75 percent slopes241—Delphine-Badland-Miasotus complex, 30 to 75 percent slopes242—Delphine-Frigate association, 30 to 75 percent slopes
  • County: CA083—Santa Barbara
  • MLRA: 20—Southern California Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA688—Channel Islands Area, California, Parts of Santa Barbara and Los Angeles Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ARW
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Typic Haploxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 192
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Delphine
  • PSC - 2 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/25/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Delphine
  • Classificaton Date - 7/13/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: schist
  • Landscape: island
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: at 36cm
  • Surface Fragments: 60.00 percent 2- to 75-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/13/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    moderately coherent

    very strongly coherent

    36 - 53

    53 - 54

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    paralithic materials

    0—2

    2—36

    36—53

    53—54

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    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

    31

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    120

    457

    —

    340

    16.5

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    13.3

    17.5

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    A—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; very gravelly loam; 22 percent clay; moderate thin platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 40 percent by volume 2-37-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N00488
    Bw1—2 to 24 centimeters (0.8 to 9.4 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face, yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face, moist; extremely gravelly clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 70 percent by volume 2-37-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N00489
    Bt2—24 to 36 centimeters (9.4 to 14.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face, yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face, moist; extremely gravelly clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 70 percent by volume 2-37-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N00490
    Cr—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); bedrock; fragments, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.
    R—53 to 54 centimeters (20.9 to 21.3 inches); bedrock; fragments, by hcl, 1n.