IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): granoso
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015CA029001
  • User Pedon ID: S2015CA029001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • User Project ID: 2015-HAN-MLRA17-001
  • Project Name: MLRA 17 - Dello, Granoso, Hilmar Laboratory Characterization
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025

    • 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: 35.2722120
  • Std. Longitude: -118.9051267
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Between trellis rows of grapes, west side of vineyard.
  • Map Unit: 125—Granoso loamy sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA029—Kern
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys
  • Regional Office: SW—Southwest
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-HAN—Hanford, California
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA666—Kern County, California, Northwestern Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Phil Smith, Genevieve Widrig, Andy Paolucci
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, thermic Typic Torripsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - granoso
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, thermic Typic Torripsamments
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2015
  • Classifier - Philip Smith
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Current Crop - grapes, table
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from granite
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/11/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Phil Smith
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - crop vines
  • 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

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

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    ochric epipedon

    free carbonates

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    0—16

    115—288

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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

    0.1

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    122

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    47

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    18.6

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    Ap—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; fine sand; structureless single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (4.0) very fine roots throughout; few (1.0) medium tubular and few (1.0) coarse tubular pores; ; 5 percent very fine mica flakes, muscovite; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH indicator solutions; very abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—16 to 73 centimeters (6.3 to 28.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, moist; fine sand; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; very few (0.1) very fine roots throughout; 5 percent very fine mica flakes, muscovite; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; diffuse smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—73 to 115 centimeters (28.7 to 45.3 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, moist; fine sand; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent very fine mica flakes, muscovite; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; very abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C3—115 to 123 centimeters (45.3 to 48.4 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) broken face, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; structureless massive, and weak medium platy; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; common (1.0) fine roots throughout and common (1.0) coarse roots throughout; many (10.0) very fine dendritic tubular pores; and 8 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; 5 percent very fine mica flakes, muscovite; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C4—123 to 245 centimeters (48.4 to 96.5 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) broken face, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) broken face, moist; fine sand; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; very few (0.1) medium roots throughout; 5 percent very fine mica flakes, muscovite; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; abrupt boundary.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C5—245 to 252 centimeters (96.5 to 99.2 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) broken face, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (1.0) fine roots throughout and common (1.0) coarse roots throughout; 4 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix and 4 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix surrounding redox depletions and 4 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with sharp boundaries lining pores and 5 percent fine prominent iron depletions with sharp boundaries in matrix; 5 percent very fine mica flakes, muscovite; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; abrupt boundary.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C6—252 to 288 centimeters (99.2 to 113.4 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) broken face, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face, moist; fine sand; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent very fine mica flakes, muscovite; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; abrupt boundary.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket