IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SANTA LUCIA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1962CA083009
  • User Pedon ID: S1962CA083009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1962CA083009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38137
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 34.8880539
  • Std. Longitude: -120.5849991
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 35W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4
  • Location Description: Very near watershed divide in Casmalia Hills, reached by trail road east southeast out of Corralitos Ranch headquarters; 5.4 airline miles south and slightly east of Guadalupe.
  • 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: Clayey-skeletal, smectitic, thermic Pachic Ultic Haploxerolls
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - SANTA LUCIA
  • PSC - 25 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Santa Lucia
  • Classificaton Date - 4/19/1962
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/19/1962 (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

    MEPO3

    Medicago polymorpha

    burclover

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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

    25

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    427

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    180

    406

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    13.9

    17.2

    9.4

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    A11—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 21.0 medium roots; 21.0 very fine and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23607; dry when described;. upper 1 inch strong fine and medium granular on 3/4 surface, where granular lacking due to trampling.
    A12—20 to 56 centimeters (7.9 to 22.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; clay loam; strong fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine to medium roots and 0.5 fine to coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A23608; dry when described;. 65 percent by volume of shale fragments larger than 3/4 inch diameter.
    A13—56 to 91 centimeters (22.0 to 35.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; clay loam; strong fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 21.0 medium roots and fine to coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A23609; dry when described;. 75 percent by volume of rock fragments larger than 3/4 inch diameter.
    R—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; fragments. Lab sample # 40A23610; dry when described;. shale is fractured and joints contain up to 5 percent A1 soils in joints to depth of 46 inches, less than 1 percent soil below 46 inches.