IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SHEDD
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965CA053008
  • User Pedon ID: S1965CA053008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1965CA053008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2966
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38095
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 36.2075005
  • Std. Longitude: -120.9674988
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20S
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: Center of SE1/4 of NW1/4
  • Location Description: about 9 miles east of King City up Wild Horse Canyon. Coordinate Grid (C65 J10) about 30 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, calcareous, thermic Typic Xerorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - SHEDD
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shedd
  • Classificaton Date - 5/19/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/19/1965 (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

    MEPO3

    Medicago polymorpha

    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

    20

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    381

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    180

    254

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    16.7

    20

    15

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    ; fragments. Lab sample # 40A23384
    A11—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), gray (5Y 6/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and weak coarse platy structure; hard when dry, very friable, moderately 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, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23378; moist when described;. strongly effervescent with disseminated lime; about 3 percent fine shale fragments in an A11 and A12.
    A12—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), gray (5Y 6/1) and gray (5Y 5/1), dry; silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 21.0 very fine interstitial and fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23379; moist when described;. strongly effervescent with disseminated lime. A12 and A13 show considerable rodent activity.
    A13—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), gray (5Y 6/1), dry; silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 21.0 very fine interstitial and fine and medium tubular pores; 30 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A23380; moist when described;. violently effervescent with disseminated lime; 30 shale fragments.
    A14—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23381; moist when described;
    C1CA—76 to 127 centimeters (29.9 to 50.0 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2), light gray (5Y 7/2), dry; firm; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A23382; moist when described;. rock, firm but can be broken by hands; joints have many thin lime coatings and are strongly calcareous; interior very weakly calcareous.
    C2—127 to 170 centimeters (50.0 to 66.9 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2), light gray (5Y 7/2), dry; firm; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A23383; moist when described;