IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ordeal
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S05CA069003
  • User Pedon ID: PINN130
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S05CA069003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0202
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 18934
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 36.5166667
  • Std. Longitude: -121.1382778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16S
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 19
  • Map Unit: 142—Ordeal-Longsfolly-Passion complex, 9 to 50 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-E2—Bickmore Canyon, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ken Oster and Kendra Moseley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, thermic Typic Xeropsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ordeal
  • PSC - 25 to 87 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ordeal
  • Classificaton Date - 10/3/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from rhyolite
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: conglomerate, unspecified at 87cm with <10
  • Geology: Temblor formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 30.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2- to 5-millimeter granite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/3/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Air Temp - 20
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ADFA

    CECU

    Adenostoma fasciculatum

    Ceanothus cuneatus

    chamise

    buckbrush

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    34 - 87

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

    paralithic contact

    34—

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

    10/3/2005

    50

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    21
    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

    41

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    368

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    180

    432

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    250

    15

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    A1—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; loamy coarse sand; 80 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 5 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 2.0 very fine roots; 2.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 5-12-25 millimeter granite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-3-5 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00726; observed in pit, large or quarry
    A2—6 to 21 centimeters (2.4 to 8.3 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, dry; gravelly loamy coarse sand; 80 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 5 percent clay; moderate very coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 1.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 5-12-25 millimeter granite fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-3-5 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00727; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bw—21 to 108 centimeters (8.3 to 42.5 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, very pale brown (10YR 8/4) broken face, dry; gravelly loamy coarse sand; 80 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 8 percent clay; moderate very coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 2.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 5-12-25 millimeter granite fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-3-5 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.1, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00728; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Cr—108 to 118 centimeters (42.5 to 46.5 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 06N00729; observed in pit, large or quarry