IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MELOLAND
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1963CA025001
  • User Pedon ID: S1963CA025001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3411
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38526
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 33.0149994
  • Std. Longitude: -115.5236130
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13S
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: near center of north side of NE 1/4 NE 1/4 Tract 93
  • Location Description: Approximately 175 feet south, 1150 feet east of bridge over Spruce 3 Drain on Hwy. 111.
  • Map Unit: 123—Meloland and Holtville loams, wet
  • State: California
  • County: CA025—Imperial
  • MLRA: 31—Lower Colorado Desert
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA683—Imperial County, California, Imperial Valley Area

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Zimmerman, A. Endo, Khalid Khalil, Osman Gosmalia
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over clayey, mixed, calcareous, hyperthermic Typic Torrifluvents
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - MELOLAND
  • Classificaton Date - 5/27/2005
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Meloland
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: recent lacustrine deposits
  • Landform: Lacustrine basin floor
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/1/1963 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: ABN12W139
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

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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

    1

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    69

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    314

    22.2

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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26459
    C1—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26460
    C2—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26461
    C3—66 to 97 centimeters (26.0 to 38.2 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; clay; moderate very fine platy structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated and 10 percent fine white (N 8/0), dry, gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26462
    C4—97 to 135 centimeters (38.2 to 53.1 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay; massive; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; carbonate, finely disseminated and 75 percent coarse white (N 8/0), dry, gypsum crystals, unspecified in cracks; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26463
    C5—135 to 180 centimeters (53.1 to 70.9 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; clay; massive; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; carbonate, finely disseminated and 75 percent coarse white (N 8/0), dry, gypsum crystals, unspecified in cracks; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog.