IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bosanko
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1971CA059014
  • User Pedon ID: S1971CA059014
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1971CA059014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 71C0062
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43921
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 6S
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4, SE 1/4
  • Location Description: Orange County, California. Rancho Mission Viejo.
  • State: California
  • County: CA059—Orange
  • MLRA: 19—Southern California Coastal Plains and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA678—Orange County and Part of Riverside County, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 33117-E6—San Juan Capistrano, California

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Aridic Haploxererts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bosanko
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/25/2016
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bosanko
  • Classificaton Date - 12/21/1971
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: strongly sloping upland
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/21/1971 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: AXK-3K111
  • 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

    HORDE

    Hordeum

    barley

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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

    14

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    274.3

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    270

    432

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    16.6

    22.2

    11.1

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    AP—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay; strong fine granular, and strong medium granular structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 21.0 medium interstitial and 21.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A12—5 to 30 centimeters (2.0 to 11.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay; strong very coarse prismatic structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 71C00393
    A13—30 to 63 centimeters (11.8 to 24.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; clay; moderate very coarse prismatic structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 71C00394
    ACCA—63 to 95 centimeters (24.8 to 37.4 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) and pale yellow (5Y 7/3), black (10YR 2/1) and 5Y (5Y/),, moist; clay; moderate very coarse prismatic structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 1 percent threadlike carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 71C00395
    C1CA—95 to 120 centimeters (37.4 to 47.2 inches); pale yellow (5Y 7/3), olive (5Y 5/3), moist; bedrock; 0.1 very fine roots in cracks; 3 percent coarse platy gypsum masses; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0 irregular boundary. Lab sample # 71C00396
    C2—120 to 200 centimeters (47.2 to 78.7 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; bedrock; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0. Lab sample # 71C00397