IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fiale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: CA04688SC069
  • User Pedon ID: CA04688SC069
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0106
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17022
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 34.0225278
  • Std. Longitude: -119.8022500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 100—Fiale-Tongva-Topdeck association, 15 to 60 percent slopes
  • 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: MEB,ARW,KP,JS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Aridic Haploxererts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 451
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fiale
  • PSC - 25 to 72 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/25/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fiale
  • Classificaton Date - 6/24/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent moderate weathered volcanic breccia, basic at 72cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Volcanic group .
  • Surface Fragments: 15.00 percent 2- to 75-millimeter volcanic, unspecified, 5.00 percent 75- to 250-millimeter volcanic, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/24/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    very weakly coherent

    82 - 118

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    6—55

    —18—

    —55—
    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

    25

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    —

    1317

    —

    135

    457

    —

    340

    16.5

    —

    13.3

    17.5

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, black (10YR 2/1) broken face, moist; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments, by hcl, 1n.; observed in pit, small
    A—2 to 16 centimeters (0.8 to 6.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, black (10YR 2/1) broken face, moist; clay loam; 39 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots; 1.0 very fine interstitial and 1.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N00491; dry when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 267563; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 267563
    Bss—16 to 44 centimeters (6.3 to 17.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; clay; 50 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic, and strong very coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; slow permeability; 1.0 very fine roots; distinct slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, phenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N00492; moderately dry when described; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 267564; continuous - phpvsfiid 267564
    Bt—44 to 72 centimeters (17.3 to 28.3 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) broken face, moist; clay loam; 38 percent clay; massive; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; slow permeability; 2.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), dry, and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist,; 3 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.0, phenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 05N00493; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cr—72 to 73 centimeters (28.3 to 28.7 inches); fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; observed in pit, small