IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): GREENFIELD
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973CA079003
  • User Pedon ID: S1973CA079003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1973CA079003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 73C0031
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44665
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 35.7758331
  • Std. Longitude: -120.7500000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25S
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: A pit located about 4,000 feet west and 2,200 feet south of the Northeast corner
  • Location Description: San Luis Obispo County, California (Paso Robles Area). on grid number C9N8. The pit is 7/8 of a mile from the intersection of Bee Rock and W. Perimeter Roads on Camp Roberts Military Reservation.
  • State: California
  • County: CA079—San Luis Obispo
  • MLRA: 14—Central California Coastal Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA665—San Luis Obispo County, California, Paso Robles Area

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed Typic Haploxeralfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - GREENFIELD
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Greenfield
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 1-10
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    BRHOH

    BRRI8

    ERODI

    LUPIN

    MEHI

    QUAL

    VUMY

    Bromus hordeaceus ssp. hordeaceus

    Bromus rigidus

    Erodium

    Lupinus

    Medicago hispida

    Quercus alba

    Vulpia myuros

    soft brome

    ripgut brome

    stork's bill

    lupine

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    white oak

    annual fescue

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    ochric epipedon

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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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    182.8

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    305

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    15.5

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    AP—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 73C00209; observed in pit, small
    B1T—20 to 58 centimeters (7.9 to 22.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 73C00210; observed in pit, small
    B2T—58 to 105 centimeters (22.8 to 41.3 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 75 percent clay films on surfaces along pores and 75 percent clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 73C00211; observed in pit, small
    B3—105 to 138 centimeters (41.3 to 54.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; fine sandy loam; massive; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 73C00212; observed in pit, small
    2C—138 to 155 centimeters (54.3 to 61.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; gravelly sand; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 73C00213; observed in pit, small