IDENTIFIERS
Current Taxon Name (Soil Name):
Holtville
OSD
Series Extent
User Site ID:
S1963CA025002
User Pedon ID:
S1963CA025002
Lab Information:
Certified Lab Pedon Description -
no
Lab Source ID -
SSL
Lab Pedon # -
40A3412
NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID -
38527
Print Date:
11/11/2024
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:
33.0675011
Std. Longitude:
-115.6569443
Datum:
WGS84
Township:
13S
Range:
13E
Section:
5
PLSS Details:
near center of E 1/2 SW 1/4 Tract 130
Location Description:
Approximately 250 feet west, 700 feet north of gate 179, Trifolium Lateral 9. 2 1/4 miles north of US Highway 99 along Trifolium Lateral 9.
Map Unit:
109—Holtville silty clay
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:
Robert Zimmerman, Albert Endo, Khalid Khalil, Osman Gosmalia
Current Taxonomic Class:
Clayey over loamy, mixed, calcareous, hyperthermic Typic Torrifluvents
Current Taxon Kind:
series
Pedon Type:
OSD pedon
Pedon Record Orgin:
Converted from PDP 3.x
Pedon #:
2
Correlated Information:
Soil Name -
Holtville
PSC -
25 to 100 cm.
Classificaton Date -
11/30/2007
Moisture Class -
aridic (torric)
Sampled As Information:
Soil Name -
Holtville
Classificaton Date -
2/8/1963
Dynamic Soil Properties:
Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator -
no
Hydric:
no
SITE
Parent Material:
recemt lacustrine deposits
Landform:
lacustrine basin floor
Runoff:
low
Drainage Class:
well
Surface Fragments:
Benchmark Soil?:
no
VEGETATION
SITE OBSERVATION
Observation Date:
2/8/1963 (actual site observation date)
Air Photo ID:
ABN4W7O
Surface Cover Properties:
Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 -
crop cover
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 43 centimeters (0.0 to 16.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silty clay; massive, and weak medium subangular blocky; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; very slow permeability; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26464
C1—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; silty clay; moderate medium platy structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; very slow permeability; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26465
C2—61 to 89 centimeters (24.0 to 35.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26466
C3—89 to 183 centimeters (35.0 to 72.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loamy fine sand; single grain; very friable, weakly coherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.5 fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A26467