IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chaqua
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013CA019001
  • User Pedon ID: S2013CA019001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N4942
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72946
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 36.7318610
  • Std. Longitude: -120.7602500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Panoche Hills, Western Fresno County, CA. A soil climate station is placed here for gather data on a north facing aspect. About 75 feet downhill of road that goes to communications tower. site is vegetated with grasses and forbs with thin Oi layer.
  • State: California
  • County: CA019—Fresno
  • MLRA: 15—Central California Coast Range
  • Regional Office: SW—Southwest
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-TEM—Templeton, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Randy Riddle, Michelle Stropky
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Calcixerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chaqua
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Calcixerepts
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/9/2013
  • Classifier - Phil Smith
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/14/2013 (monitoring equipment installed)
  • Data Collector: Randy Riddle
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Local Disturb. Distance - 2
  • Local Disturb. Description - Sheep trails on the contour
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Water Properties:
  • Water pH Method - pH indicator solutions
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    calcic horizon

    49—83

    —34—
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    1/14/2013

    1/14/2013

    1/14/2013

    1/14/2013

    10

    50

    20

    102

    s-tmb-m006

    s-tmb-m006

    s-tmb-m006

    s-tmb-m006

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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

    38

    —

    —

    555

    —

    15

    267

    —

    240

    16

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    —

    —

    —

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    PAN-N

    BDI - Panoche - North

    SM/ST
    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; very abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A1—2 to 15 centimeters (0.8 to 5.9 inches); weak red (10R 4/2) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common very fine roots and few medium roots; many very fine irregular and common fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume ? to 20-? millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—15 to 49 centimeters (5.9 to 19.3 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; common very fine roots; many very fine interstitial and common fine irregular pores; 1 percent by volume ? to 20-? millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—49 to 83 centimeters (19.3 to 32.7 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face, moist; loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few very fine roots; few very fine irregular and few medium tubular and few fine tubular pores; 12 percent medium prominent threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-3-5 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-20-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—83 to 128 centimeters (32.7 to 50.4 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face, moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; few very fine roots; many (5.0) very fine irregular and common (2.0) fine tubular pores; 5 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-?-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-5 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk3—128 to 200 centimeters (50.4 to 78.7 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) broken face, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) broken face, moist; loam; 26 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few very fine roots; 10 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; 2 percent by volume 5-25-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 3 percent by volume 2-3-5 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH indicator solutions.; dry when described; observed in pit, small