IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Calleguas
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976CA037107
  • User Pedon ID: S1976CA037107
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3373
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38488
  • 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: 34.5844460
  • Std. Longitude: -118.7141647
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4,NE1/4,NE1/4
  • Location Description: At the intersection of old 99 and 6N53, Saugus Ranger District, R18W recorded on description changed to R17W
  • Map Unit: 15—Calcixerollic Xerochrepts-Calleguas family-Modesto family, moderately deep complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA037—Los Angeles
  • MLRA: 20—Southern California Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA776—Angeles National Forest Area, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 34118-E6—Whitaker Peak, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom Ryan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal over fragmental, mixed, thermic Typic Xerorthents
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 107
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Calleguas
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal over fragmental, mixed, thermic Typic Xerorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 11/9/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine grain sandstone
  • Landform: canyon
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified with <10
  • Geology: Pliocene Non Marine formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/9/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    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

    70

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    914

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    45

    508

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    A1—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3) and light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; gravelly silty clay loam; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 21.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26229
    C1—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; gravelly silty clay loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; neutral, pH 7.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26230
    Cr2—48 centimeters (18.9 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 40A26231