IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SHERIDAN
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965CA053021
  • User Pedon ID: S1965CA053021
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1965CA053021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3056
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38185
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 36.3591652
  • Std. Longitude: -121.8722229
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18S
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: SE corner SW1/4 SW1/4
  • Location Description: About 3.5 miles from Bixby Bridge (on Hwy. #1) on old Coast Road, 1 mile up Rancho Calera Road from Old Coast Road, about 20 feet down from ridge top. (Coastal grass site).
  • 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: Coarse-loamy, mixed, thermic Pachic Haploxerolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 21
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - SHERIDAN
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sheridan
  • Classificaton Date - 5/25/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/25/1965 (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

    BRRU2

    LUPIN

    Bromus rubens

    Lupinus

    red brome

    lupine

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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

    45

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    427

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    270

    1016

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    15

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    A11—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular and 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23935; dry when described;
    A12—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and 21.0 very fine interstitial and fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23936; moist when described;
    A13—38 to 76 centimeters (15.0 to 29.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and 21.0 very fine interstitial and fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A23937; moist when described;. few lumps, 5 to 10 percent C1 material in lower part of horizon.
    C1—76 to 104 centimeters (29.9 to 40.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; coarse sandy loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 1 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores and 30 percent clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23938; moist when described;. common thin clay films and very few moderately thick clay films in pores with most films and very few AC boundary.
    C2—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist; coarse sandy loam; massive; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A23939; moist when described;. no clay films.