IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vista
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965CA053030
  • User Pedon ID: S1965CA053030
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1965CA053030
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2997
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38126
  • Print Date: 3/13/2025

    • 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: 36.4658318
  • Std. Longitude: -121.2922211
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17S
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 600 feet SW from center of SW1/4
  • Location Description: 4.5 miles up Bryant Canyon Road from Metz Road out of Soledad. (Site #2 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: T. D. Cook and W. D. Nettleton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 30
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Vista
  • PSC - 25 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vista
  • Classificaton Date - 5/27/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hill
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/27/1965 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    Bromus rubens

    red brome

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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

    25

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    472

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    0

    254

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    18.3

    21.1

    12.8

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; fine gravelly sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A23564; dry when described;
    B1—13 to 38 centimeters (5.1 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; clay bridges in root channels and/or pores and 30 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A23565; dry when described;