IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sheridan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965CA053024
  • User Pedon ID: S1965CA053024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3058
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38187
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 36.5936127
  • Std. Longitude: -121.3519440
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15S
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: About 100 feet below top of ridge, 250 feet west of E1/4 corner SE1/4
  • Location Description: (16" rainfall, inland, grass, north slope).
  • 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, superactive, thermic Typic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 24
  • 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 - 5/26/1965
  • 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: 5/26/1965 (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
    • 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

    25

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    869

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    0

    432

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    15.6

    18.9

    10

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    A11—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; fine gravelly loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23945; dry when described;. top one inch strong fine and medium granular structure with mat of very many very fine roots, rest of horizon somewhat compacted by trampling.
    A12—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; fine gravelly loam; strong medium and coarse granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23946; moist when described;
    A13—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; fine gravelly loam; strong medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23947; moist when described;
    A14—71 to 99 centimeters (28.0 to 39.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; fine gravelly loam; strong medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A23948; moist when described;. Split for sampling purposes. Lower part has some indistinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2 moist) lumps of C1 material.
    C1—99 to 109 centimeters (39.0 to 42.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1), brown (7.5YR 4/4) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; loamy coarse sand; massive; hard when dry, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 10 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores and 75 percent iron stains between sand grains; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A23949; moist when described;. few thin clay films in pores and major rock joints, many colloidal stains on grains; consists of rotten diorite, has rock structure, easily cut with hand tools when moist.
    C2—109 to 145 centimeters (42.9 to 57.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1), brown (10YR 5/3) and gray (10YR 5/1), moist; loamy coarse sand; massive; very hard, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent iron stains; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A23950; moist when described;