IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sorrento
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015CA037002
  • User Pedon ID: S2015CA037002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0540
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79661
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 33.9961389
  • Std. Longitude: -117.9731389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Newton Middle School, Hacienda La Puente School District, 30 ft south of basketball court area
  • Map Unit: 1136—Urban land-Sorrento-Arbolado complex, 2 to 9 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA037—Los Angeles
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-TEM—Templeton, California
  • 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: Randy L Riddle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Calcic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sorrento
  • PSC - 42 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/6/2016
  • Classifier - Randy L Riddle
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sorrento
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Calcic Haploxerolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/6/2015
  • Classifier - Randy L Riddle
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: human-transported material over young alluvium derived from sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/31/2015 (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

    anthropic epipedon

    artifacts

    mollic epipedon

    human-transported material

    secondary carbonates

    cambic horizon

    0—42

    0—42

    0—42

    0—42

    42—76

    42—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

    2

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    130

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    ^Au1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), black (10YR 2/1), moist; loam; 36 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; many (8.0) very fine roots and few (1.0) medium roots; common (3.0) fine tubular and many (8.0) fine interstitial pores; fragments; 1 percent by volume plastic and 1 percent by volume brick; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N02875
    ^Au2—8 to 42 centimeters (3.1 to 16.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), black (10YR 2/1), moist; loam; 40 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots and few (1.0) fine roots; few (1.0) medium tubular and common (3.0) fine tubular pores; 5 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 60 percent distinct pressure faces on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/1) carbonate masses in matrix; 1 percent by volume subangular 2-4-5 millimeter charcoal fragments and 2 percent by volume subangular 2-37-75 millimeter mixed fragments; 1 percent by volume bitumen (asphalt) and 1 percent by volume brick and 2 percent by volume concrete; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N02876. discontinuous narrow band of 10YR 3/4 at 38 centimeters
    Btk1—42 to 76 centimeters (16.5 to 29.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; 29 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 34 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots; common (3.0) medium tubular and many (7.0) fine tubular pores; 10 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores and 25 percent distinct pressure faces on all faces of peds; 3 percent prominent threadlike noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate masses in matrix; 2 percent by volume subangular 2-37-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N02877
    Btk2—76 to 99 centimeters (29.9 to 39.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; 25 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 35 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots; many (7.0) very fine tubular and common (3.0) fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores and 25 percent distinct pressure faces on all faces of peds; carbonate, finely disseminated and 3 percent prominent irregular noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate masses in matrix; 2 percent by volume subangular 2-37-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH indicator solutions; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N02878
    Bt1—99 to 180 centimeters (39.0 to 70.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; 29 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 30 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots and few (1.0) fine roots; common (3.0) very fine irregular and many (6.0) very fine tubular and few (1.0) medium tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; 2 percent by volume subangular 2-37-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 15N02879
    Bt2—180 to 200 centimeters (70.9 to 78.7 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loam; 34 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 26 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 5 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 15N02880