IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SHEDD
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965CA053009
  • User Pedon ID: S1965CA053009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1965CA053009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2965
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38094
  • 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: 36.1786118
  • Std. Longitude: -120.9483337
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20S
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: Center NE1/4 SE1/4
  • Location Description: at the top of the watershed at Hamilton Canyon about 10 miles SE of King City.
  • 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-loamy, mixed, calcareous, thermic Typic Xerorthents
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 9
  • 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

    ALOPE

    MEPO3

    Alopecurus

    Medicago polymorpha

    foxtail

    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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    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; weak coarse angular blocky structure; hard when dry, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular and 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 1 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23372; moist when described;. strongly effervescent with disseminated lime; horizon considerably compacted by trampling of cattle, about 1 percent by volume fine shale fragments.
    A12—13 to 38 centimeters (5.1 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), gray (5Y 6/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and 21.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23373; moist when described;. violently effervescent with disseminated lime; 1 percent fine shale fragments, A12 and A13 mixed by rodent activity, soil in rodent holes has strong granular structure and somewhat more roots than adjacent soil.
    A13—38 to 66 centimeters (15.0 to 26.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), gray (5Y 6/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular and 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A23374; moist when described;. violently effervescent with disseminated lime; 10 percent by volume fine shale fragments; abrupt irregular boundary with considerable mixing of A13 and C1ca by rodents.
    C1CA—66 to 127 centimeters (26.0 to 50.0 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2), pale yellow (5Y 8/2), dry; fragments. Lab sample # 40A23375; moist when described;. many lime coatings on rock joints.
    C2—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A23377; moist when described;
    C2—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2), pale yellow (5Y 8/2), dry; fragments. Lab sample # 40A23376; moist when described;. shale can be chipped with a spade with some difficulty.