IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cascara
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009CA069007
  • User Pedon ID: S09CA069007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2009CA069007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0926
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24649
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 36.3781929
  • Std. Longitude: -120.7293625
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18 S
  • Range: 11 E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 1,800 feet (548.6 meters) south and 915 feet (278.9 meters) west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: From the entrance to the Clear Creek Management Area (CCMA) at Coalinga Road and the Creek crossing, about 3.8 miles (6.1 kilometers) east on CCMA route 1 (R1), about 150 feet (45.7 meters) up the drainage way and about 50 feet (15.2 meters) up the east facing slope.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: California
  • County: CA069—San Benito
  • MLRA: 15—Central California Coast Range
  • Regional Office: SW—Southwest
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-TEM—Templeton, California
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA069—San Benito County, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36120-D6—Idria, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bry Schmidt/Kerry Arroues
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, magnesic, thermic, shallow Typic Xerorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cascara
  • PSC - 0 to 18 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/14/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cascara
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, magnesic, thermic, shallow Typic Xerorthent
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/22/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: serpentinite
  • Geology: Sp formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 65.00 percent subangular indurated 2- to 20-millimeter serpentinite, 5.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 20- to 75-millimeter serpentinite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/22/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARGL4

    PICO3

    PIJE

    PISA2

    Arctostaphylos glauca

    Pinus coulteri

    Pinus jeffreyi

    Pinus sabiniana

    bigberry manzanita

    Coulter pine

    Jeffrey pine

    California foothill pine

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

    18 - 70

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

    ochric epipedon

    paralithic contact

    0—5

    18—70

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

    4/22/2009

    51

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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

    60

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    938.8

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    80

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) broken face, strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face, dry; very gravelly sandy loam; 12 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 1.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 20-30-75 millimeter serpentinite fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-10-20 millimeter serpentinite fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N03395; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face, dry; very gravelly sandy loam; 13 percent clay; weak thin platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; semideformable; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 8 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 12 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 20-30-75 millimeter serpentinite fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-10-20 millimeter serpentinite fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, pH meter; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # 09N03396; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cr—18 to 70 centimeters (7.1 to 27.6 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH meter. Lab sample # 09N03397; slightly moist when described; observed in pit, small