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: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 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