IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mohave
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955CA071005
  • User Pedon ID: S1955CA071005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1955CA071005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2936
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38065
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 34.7688904
  • Std. Longitude: -117.3238907
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet W and 100 feet S of center
  • Location Description: about 1 mile NW of Helendale.
  • State: California
  • County: CA071—San Bernardino
  • MLRA: 30—Mojave Basin and Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA671—San Bernardino County, California, Mojave River Area

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. G. Harper
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, thermic Typic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mohave
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mohave
  • Classificaton Date - 1/1/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Runoff: low
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1955 (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

    ATCO

    ATCO

    DISTI

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Distichlis

    shadscale saltbush

    shadscale saltbush

    saltgrass

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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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    762

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    102

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    Av—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loam; moderate fine and medium platy structure; slightly hard, friable; slow permeability; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23155. moderately micaceous; pH on 1 to 5 dilution with thymol blue 9.6.
    B1—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; white (10YR 8/1) coarse prominent mottles; weak medium platy structure; soft, very friable; slow permeability; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23156. moderately micaceous; moderate number of plant roots mainly between the plates.
    B2—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; silty clay; 1 percent white (10YR 8/1) fine and medium mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm; very slow permeability; 1.0 roots; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23157
    B2CA—30 to 63 centimeters (11.8 to 24.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; sandy clay loam; massive; extremely hard, firm; moderately slow permeability; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, unspecified smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23158. This is very strongly calcareous and contains many lime nodules that range up to 3/8 inch in diameter.
    CCA—63 to 112 centimeters (24.8 to 44.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; fine sandy loam; massive; very hard, friable; moderate permeability; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23159. Many white lime nodules ranging up to 3/8 inch in diameter; very strongly micaceous; devoid of plant roots.
    C—112 to 132 centimeters (44.1 to 52.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; fine sandy loam; massive; hard when dry, friable; moderate permeability; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, unspecified; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A23160. very mildly calcareous with an occasional small white lime fleck.
    D—132 to 132 centimeters (52.0 to 52.0 inches); very gravelly loamy sand; rounded 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 40A23161. Rounded gravel which is mainly from granite and quartzite range up to 2 inches in diameter.