IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Biscailuz
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2014CA037002
  • User Pedon ID: S2014CA037002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2014CA037002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 14N0533
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79460
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 33.8530556
  • Std. Longitude: -118.1618333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Biscailuz Park, Lakewood, California in right field 50ft SE of bend in Park Dr.
  • Map Unit: 1005—Urban land-Biscailuz-Hueneme, drained complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA696—Los Angeles County, California, Southeastern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 33118-G2—Long Beach (digital), California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Randy L Riddle, Beverly Harben, and Kit Paris
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Oxyaquic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Biscailuz
  • PSC - 25 to 62 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/6/2016
  • Classifier - Randy L Riddle
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Biscailuz
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Cumulic Haploxerolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/28/2014
  • 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: discontinuous human-transported material over young micaceous alluvium
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: very rare flooding for extremely brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/22/2014 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - urban and built-up
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - yes
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CYDA

    Cynodon dactylon

    Bermudagrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    human-transported material

    anthropic epipedon

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    aquic conditions

    1—62

    1—62

    1—62

    6—200

    178—200

    178—200

    178—200

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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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    16

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    356

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    355

    17

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    18

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 14N03400
    ^A—1 to 6 centimeters (0.4 to 2.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; clay loam; 22 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N03401
    ^Au—6 to 62 centimeters (2.4 to 24.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; 25 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 29 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common very fine tubular and common fine tubular pores; faint pressure faces on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron in matrix; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments; 1 percent by volume brick and 1 percent by volume irregular coal combustion byproducts and 2 percent by volume irregular bitumen (asphalt) and 5 percent by volume concrete; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N03402. iron concentrations due to local irrigation practices
    2C1—62 to 110 centimeters (24.4 to 43.3 inches); very fine sandy loam; 62 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 10 percent clay; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few very fine tubular and few fine tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; 1 percent by volume angular indurated 2-10-75 millimeter granite fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N03403
    2C2—110 to 168 centimeters (43.3 to 66.1 inches); fine sand; 90 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; few very fine irregular pores; 10 percent fine prominent spherical noncoherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries infused into matrix adjacent to pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N03404
    2C3—168 to 178 centimeters (66.1 to 70.1 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/1), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; silt loam; 38 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 2 percent clay; weak medium lenticular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine tubular pores; 10 percent medium prominent threadlike noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N03405
    3Akb—178 to 200 centimeters (70.1 to 78.7 inches); silty clay; 2 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 41 percent clay; massive; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many very fine tubular and common fine tubular pores; 5 percent fine prominent spherical noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries on surfaces along pores and 5 percent medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; 5 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (2.5Y 7/1) carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.9, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 14N03406