IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Temescal
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955CA065009
  • User Pedon ID: S1955CA065009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1955CA065009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38130
  • 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: 33.5713882
  • Std. Longitude: -116.9255524
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7S
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: Above road cut on west side of Highway 79, 1 mile S of Sage near N line
  • Location Description: about 12 miles south of Hemet.
  • State: California
  • County: CA065—Riverside
  • MLRA: 20—Southern California Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA679—Western Riverside Area, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. G. Harper
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, active, thermic Lithic Xerochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Temescal
  • PSC - 25 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Temescal
  • Classificaton Date - 12/7/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/7/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARCTO3

    BRTE

    Arctostaphylos

    Bromus tectorum

    manzanita

    cheatgrass

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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

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    732

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    406

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    A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23580. many roots and much organic matter; some moss on surface; micaceous.
    A12—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 3.0 roots; 1 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23581. moderate amounts of roots and organic matter; very strongly micaceous with a few angular pebbles.
    C1—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; very fine sandy loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable; 0.5 roots and 3.0 roots and 21.0 roots; 21 percent by volume angular 20-48-75 millimeter schist, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A23582. roots common to few, many root channels and some worm holes; high in mica. This horizon contains many angular mica schist fragments. This differs but little from a C horizon even though it has some structure and may have a few clay films.
    CR2—48 centimeters (18.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A23583. Decomposing to hard mica schist bedrock. The mica schist may be somewhat harder than at Site 5.