IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Apollo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013CA037004
  • User Pedon ID: S2013CA037004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N56581
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72935
  • 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: 33.9819167
  • Std. Longitude: -117.9487778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Powder Canyon on lower ridge up fire road from Apple Creek Gate in Hacienda Heights.
  • Map Unit: 1141—Zaca-Apollo, warm complex, 20 to 55 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • County: CA037—Los Angeles
  • MLRA: 20—Southern California Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA696—Los Angeles County, California, Southeastern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 33117-H8—La Habra, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RLR, KP, BH, PF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Apollo
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Haploxerolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/16/2013
  • Classifier - Randy L Riddle
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent sandstone and shale at 111cm
  • Geology: Soquel member of the Puente Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/16/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

    111 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic materials

    paralithic contact

    0—26

    26—54

    76—

    111—

    —-

    —-

    —-

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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

    10

    —

    —

    245

    —

    10

    455

    —

    320

    17

    —

    —

    19

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; 17 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate medium granular, and moderate coarse granular structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; common (3.0) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots; common very fine tubular and common fine tubular pores; fragments; 5 percent krotovinas (volume percent); noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N05947
    A2—10 to 26 centimeters (3.9 to 10.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; 16 percent sand; 51 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots and common (2.0) fine roots; common very fine tubular and common fine tubular pores; fragments; 5 percent krotovinas (volume percent); noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N05948
    Bt—26 to 54 centimeters (10.2 to 21.3 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; 17 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 34 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; common (3.0) very fine roots; common fine tubular pores; distinct pressure faces on all faces of peds; fragments; 5 percent krotovinas (volume percent); noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N05949
    C1—54 to 76 centimeters (21.3 to 29.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; 18 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 34 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common (3.0) very fine roots; common fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N05950
    C2—76 to 88 centimeters (29.9 to 34.6 inches); 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 30 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; extremely paragravelly silty clay loam; 16 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 28 percent clay; massive; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; few very fine roots; few very fine interstitial pores; 65 percent by volume angular very weakly coherent cemented 2-37-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.7, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N05951
    C3—88 to 111 centimeters (34.6 to 43.7 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; extremely paragravelly silt loam; 13 percent sand; 63 percent silt; 24 percent clay; massive; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; few very fine roots; few very fine interstitial pores; 85 percent by volume angular very weakly coherent cemented 2-37-75 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N05952
    Cr—136 to 161 centimeters (53.5 to 63.4 inches); bedrock; fragments.