IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): IMPERIAL
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1971CA025012
  • User Pedon ID: S1971CA025012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3414
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38529
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 33.0250015
  • Std. Longitude: -115.5177765
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: California
  • County: CA025—Imperial
  • MLRA: 31—Lower Colorado Desert
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA683—Imperial County, California, Imperial Valley Area

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, calcareous, hyperthermic Vertic Torrifluvents
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - IMPERIAL
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/27/2005
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Imperial
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1971 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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
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    C1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay; weak thin platy structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; carbonate, finely disseminated and 10 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26470
    C2—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; silty clay; moderate medium platy structure; hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; carbonate nodules and 10 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A26471
    C3—30 to 152 centimeters (11.8 to 59.8 inches); pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; silty clay; strong thick platy structure; extremely hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2. Lab sample # 40A26472