IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Grommet
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2014CA037006
  • User Pedon ID: S2014CA037006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 14N0863
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79470
  • 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: 34.0536200
  • Std. Longitude: -118.4446660
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Westwood Rec Center near Veteran Ave in south block of park inbetween HTM burms 75 feet north of south parking lot
  • Country: US—United States
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA696—Los Angeles County, California, Southeastern Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 34118-A4—Beverly Hills, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Randy L Riddle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Pachic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon #: 946
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Grommet (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/12/2016
  • Classifier - Randy L Riddle
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Grommet
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Fluventic Haploxerolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/5/2014
  • Classifier - Randy L Riddle
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: young alluvium
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Other Vegetative Class: Poaceae - grasses—Palau Lowland (eroded)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/13/2014 (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? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    cambic horizon

    15—95

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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

    4

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    87

    —

    356

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    320

    17

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    18

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    ^A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots and common fine roots; common fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-4-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume subrounded 5-37-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N04416. gravels are mixed aggregate from road base
    A2—15 to 45 centimeters (5.9 to 17.7 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; 18 percent clay; massive; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots; common very fine tubular and few fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume rounded 2-4-5 millimeter slate fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N04417
    C1—45 to 95 centimeters (17.7 to 37.4 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; 19 percent clay; massive; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; few very fine roots; many very fine interstitial and common fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume rounded 5-37-75 millimeter slate fragments and 1 percent by volume rounded 2-4-5 millimeter slate fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 14N04418
    C2—95 to 190 centimeters (37.4 to 74.8 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; loam; 17 percent clay; massive; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent by volume rounded 5-37-75 millimeter slate fragments and 2 percent by volume rounded 2-4-5 millimeter slate fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3. Lab sample # 14N04419