IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Toags
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S05CA069005
  • User Pedon ID: PINN004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S05CA069005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0204
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18936
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 36.4809722
  • Std. Longitude: -121.1574722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17S
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 420 meters west and 800 meters south of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: 70 meters southwest of Highway 146 and the fire lane that leads to the South Wilderness Trail
  • Map Unit: HaA—Hanford coarse sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes133—Toags-Pinncamp complex, 0 to 5 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: California
  • County: CA069—San Benito
  • MLRA: 15—Central California Coast Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA069—San Benito County, CaliforniaCA788—Pinnacles National Monument, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36121-D2—North Chalone Peak, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ken Oster
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, thermic Typic Xeropsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Toags
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Toags
  • Classificaton Date - 12/9/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: overbank deposits derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: very rare flooding for extremely brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Quaternary Sediments formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 40.00 percent 2- to 75-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/9/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 12452-172
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 21
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BRDI3

    BRHOH

    BRRU2

    ERFA2

    Bromus diandrus

    Bromus hordeaceus ssp. hordeaceus

    Bromus rubens

    Eriogonum fasciculatum

    ripgut brome

    soft brome

    red brome

    Eastern Mojave buckwheat

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—61

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    12/9/2004

    50

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    11
    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

    2.5

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    298

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    220

    432

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    250

    15

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    A1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; coarse sand; 3 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.2 fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00735; observed in pit, small
    A2—18 to 61 centimeters (7.1 to 24.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; coarse sand; 4 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00736; observed in pit, small
    C1—61 to 107 centimeters (24.0 to 42.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; coarse sand; 2 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00737; observed in pit, small
    C2—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; coarse sand; 3 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, pH meter. Lab sample # 06N00738; observed in pit, small