IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): OCEANO
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1962CA083002
  • User Pedon ID: S1962CA083002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1962CA083002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2972
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38101
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 34.8952789
  • Std. Longitude: -120.3938904
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 33W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4 of NW1/4
  • Location Description: 1-1/2 miles south of Betteravia Road on Telephone Road, 3400 feet west and northwest on oil well road, 100 feet up slope; 4.2 miles south southeast of center of Santa Maria.
  • State: California
  • County: CA083—Santa Barbara
  • MLRA: 14—Central California Coastal Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA672—Northern Santa Barbara Area, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. C. Leifer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, thermic Lamellic Xeropsamments
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - OCEANO
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Oceano
  • Classificaton Date - 3/15/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: dune
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/15/1962 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    AMSIN

    BRRU2

    Amsinckia

    Bromus rubens

    fiddleneck

    red brome

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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

    8

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    122

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    225

    356

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    13.9

    17.2

    10

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    A11—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; sand; weak coarse platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23411; moist when described;
    A12—6 to 36 centimeters (2.4 to 14.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 0.1 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23412; moist when described;
    A13—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 0.1 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23413; moist when described;
    AC—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23414; moist when described;
    C1—69 to 102 centimeters (27.2 to 40.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), pink (7.5YR 7/3), dry; sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23415; moist when described;. C horizons coincide with upper bands in each following horizon.
    C2—102 to 135 centimeters (40.2 to 53.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), pink (7.5YR 7/3), dry; sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.0 roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A23416; moist when described;. one very thin weak lamella top of horizon, several short discontinuous lamellae, lower lamella 1/4 inch thick.
    C3—135 to 165 centimeters (53.1 to 65.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), pinkish gray (7.5YR 7/2), dry; sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.0 roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A23417; moist when described;. several continuous weak lamellae 1/8 inch to 1/4 inch thick near top, several very weak lamellae 4 to 6 inches long lower part.
    C4—165 to 203 centimeters (65.0 to 79.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), pink (7.5YR 7/3), dry; sand; massive; soft, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A23418; moist when described;. sharply wavy lamellae 1/2 inch to 1 inch thick top of horizon, similar one in middle with branches, strong lamella 1 inch thick bottom of horizon, firm when moist.
    C5—203 to 239 centimeters (79.9 to 94.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; sand; massive; soft, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A23419; moist when described;. 3 lamellae about 1 inch thick somewhat wavy and branched, enclose lenses of sand, color contrast and firmness decrease with increasing depth.