IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): SHERIDAN
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965CA053022
  • User Pedon ID: S1965CA053022
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1965CA053022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3057
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38186
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 36.3541679
  • Std. Longitude: -121.8724976
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18S
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: Center of E1/2 SE1/4
  • Location Description: 3.5 miles from Bixby Bridge on Highway #1, about 1.8 mile up Rancho Calera Road from Old Coast Road, 1200 feet SSE from Ranch house, about 100 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 #: 22
  • 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

    LUPIN

    Lupinus

    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

    30

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    388

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    315

    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), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and 3.0 very fine interstitial and fine and medium tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23940; dry when described;. Soil somewhat compacted by trampling and contains about 5 percent small rock fragments.
    A12—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; weak coarse angular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and 3.0 very fine interstitial and fine and medium tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23941; moist when described;. 5 percent rock fragments, structure may reflect tillage or trampling in past years.
    A13—43 to 81 centimeters (16.9 to 31.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 21.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A23942; moist when described;. 5 to 8 percent rock fragments plus 5 percent lumps of rotten diorite.
    C1—81 to 109 centimeters (31.9 to 42.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist; loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; 20 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23943; moist when described;. few black specks on rock joints, rock easily cut with hand tools, contains 20 percent pockets of A1 material due to gophers.
    C2—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist; loam; massive; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 1 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; 20 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A23944; moist when described;. has very few thin clay films in pores and is a little less weathered.