IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SANTA LUCIA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1962CA083010
  • User Pedon ID: S1962CA083010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1962CA083010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3064
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38193
  • 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: 34.8969460
  • Std. Longitude: -120.5872192
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 35W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4 of NE1/4
  • Location Description: Very near watershed divide in Casmalia Hills, reached by trail road east southeast out of Corralitos Ranch headquarters; 5 airline miles south and slightly west 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 #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - SANTA LUCIA
  • PSC - 25 to 61 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: linear
  • 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

    CIRSI

    Cirsium

    thistle

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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

    18

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    457

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    0

    381

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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), black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A23987; dry when described;. upper 3/4 to 1 inch medium to strong fine granular on about 3/4 of surface.
    A12—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay loam; strong fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 50 percent by volume angular 20-48-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A23988; moist when described;. 50 percent by volume of angular shale fragments larger than 3/4 inch,
    A13—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay loam; strong fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 50 percent by volume angular 20-48-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A23989; moist when described;. 50 percent by volume of rock fragments larger than 3/4 inch.
    R—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A23990; moist when described;. hard weakly fractured Monterey shale; locally dips from 24 inches on left face of pit to 35 inches on right; contains some porcelaneous strata. Shale is somewhat harder than at site S62Calif-42-9-4.