IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Linne
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965CA053004
  • User Pedon ID: S1965CA053004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1965CA053004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0224
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32753
  • 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: 36.2833328
  • Std. Longitude: -121.0999985
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 6 miles N. of King City on Montgomery Ranch, 3800 feet NE from reservoir, 1 mile NE from main buildings, about 70 feet uphill from dirt road and 400 feet down from ridge top.
  • State: California
  • County: CA053—Monterey
  • MLRA: 14—Central California Coastal Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA053—Monterey County, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lewis C. Leifer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, thermic Pachic Calcixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Linne
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Linne
  • Classificaton Date - 5/18/1965
  • 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: 5/18/1965 (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

    AMSIN

    MEPO3

    Amsinckia

    Medicago polymorpha

    fiddleneck

    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

    26

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    183

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    45

    356

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    15.6

    19.4

    10

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    A11—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium platy parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A01668; moist when described;. disseminated carbonate; platy structure at surface due to cattle trampling.
    A12—10 to 41 centimeters (3.9 to 16.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silty clay loam; moderate and strong coarse subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine and 21.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A01669; moist when described;. with disseminated carbonate.
    A13—41 to 81 centimeters (16.1 to 31.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 21.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A01670; moist when described;. with disseminated carbonate and many fine filaments of carbonate toward bottom of horizon.
    A14CA—81 to 91 centimeters (31.9 to 35.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A01671; moist when described;. disseminated carbonate, fine carbonate filaments cover 65 percent of ped faces.
    C1CA—91 to 115 centimeters (35.8 to 45.3 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3); soft; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A01672; moist when described;. calcareous shale and sandstone with many white, thick to thin coats of carbonate on rock joints; carbonate appears to have accumulated from above.
    115 to 150 centimeters (45.3 to 59.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A01674; moist when described;
    C2—115 to 150 centimeters (45.3 to 59.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3); soft; fragments. Lab sample # 40A01673; moist when described;. with few thin carbonate coats on rock joints.