IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Monserate
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1966CA073001
  • User Pedon ID: S1966CA073001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1966CA073001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2843
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37422
  • Print Date: 9/23/2024

    • 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: 32.8341675
  • Std. Longitude: -117.1377792
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15S
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 950 feet west and 750 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: Miramar Transect No. 1, station 23.8,
  • State: California
  • County: CA073—San Diego
  • MLRA: 19—Southern California Coastal Plains and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA638—San Diego County Area, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: George Borst, David Estrada, Gerald Kester, Reuben Nelson, and Dennis Nettleton.
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Monserate
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Durixeralfs
  • PSC - 84 to 89 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1966
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: marine terrace
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1966 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    ERSM

    Eriogonum smithii

    flat-top buckwheat

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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

    1

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    130

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    254

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    20

    12.8

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    A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A22443
    A12—5 to 38 centimeters (2.0 to 15.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; loam; massive; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 21.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A22444. Many animal burrows and krotovinas, some approximately 3 inches in diameter are probably pocket gopher burrows, other approximately 3/8 inch in diameter are probably insect burrows.
    B1—38 to 84 centimeters (15.0 to 33.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; massive; hard when dry, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 21.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A22445. Common krotovinas filled with weakly granular material resembling the surface horizon.
    B2T—84 to 89 centimeters (33.1 to 35.0 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A22446
    B3SIM—89 to 89 centimeters (35.0 to 35.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, iron stains on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A22447. Duripan; noneffervescent white coatings, probably silica.