IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Casino
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S05CA069001
  • User Pedon ID: PINN042
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S05CA069001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0200
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18932
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 36.4817778
  • Std. Longitude: -121.1828056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17S
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 1,717feet east and 2.211 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: about 200 meters northwest of public restroom at the Bear Gulch Visitor Center along the maintenance road, Pinnacles National Monument
  • Map Unit: 106—Casino-Argixerolls complex, 50 to 70 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: K. Oster and V. Bullard
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Pachic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 42
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Casino
  • PSC - 26 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Casino
  • Classificaton Date - 3/3/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: rhyolitic and andesitic residuum weathered from acidic volcanic breccia
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered andesite at 93cm with <10
  • Geology: Pinnacles formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 3.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2- to 5-millimeter andesite, 5.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter andesite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/3/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 12452-172
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Air Temp - 13
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PISA2

    QUDO

    Pinus sabiniana

    Quercus douglasii

    California foothill pine

    blue oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    93 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—51

    26—93

    93—

    —51—

    —-

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

    3/3/2005

    50

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    2
    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

    60

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    —

    404

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    20

    432

    —

    194

    16

    22

    9

    16.6

    22.5

    8.9

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    CA6926

    Pinnacles NM

    WETS
    A1—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; loam; 44 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 21 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-12-20 millimeter rhyolite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter rhyolite fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00717; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—9 to 26 centimeters (3.5 to 10.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; clay loam; 34 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 34 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-?-20 millimeter rhyolite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter rhyolite fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00718; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—26 to 51 centimeters (10.2 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face, moist; clay; 28 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 48 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 7.0 very fine tubular pores; 40 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 80 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 20-50-75 millimeter rhyolite fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00719; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 304973; continuous - phpvsfiid 304972; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 304973; continuous - phpvsfiid 304972
    Bt2—51 to 93 centimeters (20.1 to 36.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/2) broken face, moist; clay; 29 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 48 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 7.0 very fine tubular pores; 40 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 80 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00720; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 304974; continuous - phpvsfiid 304975; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 304974; continuous - phpvsfiid 304975
    R—93 centimeters (36.6 inches); bedrock; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket