IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): ZACA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965CA053005
  • User Pedon ID: S1965CA053005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1965CA053005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3074
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38203
  • 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: 36.3499985
  • Std. Longitude: -121.0833359
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: About 11 miles NNE of King City or 6 miles NE of main ranch headquarters, Montgomery Ranch, about 1.4 mile (air) N. from Pinalito VABM, 1400 feet NE of a reservoir.
  • 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, smectitic, thermic Vertic Haploxerolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - ZACA
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zaca
  • 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

    ALOPE

    AMSIN

    MEPO3

    Alopecurus

    Amsinckia

    Medicago polymorpha

    foxtail

    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

    13

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    396

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    0

    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; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24052; moist when described;. strongly effervescent with disseminated lime.
    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 medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24053; moist when described;. strongly effervescent with disseminated lime.
    A13—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 3.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24054; moist when described;. violently effervescent with disseminated lime and many fine filaments of lime; 20 percent of the A13 horizon consists of gopher holes filled with fine granular A material.
    A14CA—58 to 102 centimeters (22.8 to 40.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium angular blocky, and weak coarse structure; hard when dry, friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 medium tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A24055; moist when described;. violently effervescent with disseminated lime and very many soft fine filaments of lime, horizon is much broken due to gopher activity. About 1/2 of this horizon represents holes filled with A1 material.
    C1CA—102 to 117 centimeters (40.2 to 46.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.0 roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24056; moist when described;. violently effervescent with disseminated lime and many soft fine filaments of lime.
    C2—117 to 147 centimeters (46.1 to 57.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) and very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24057; moist when described;. thick lime deposits on some rock joints; many large gopher holes filled with A horizon soil material.
    C3—147 to 178 centimeters (57.9 to 70.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), olive (5Y 5/4), moist; silty clay; coats on rock fragments and clay films; fragments. Lab sample # 40A24058; moist when described;. thin lime coating on rock joints, some joints with shiny clay films.