IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Houser
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016CA031002
  • User Pedon ID: S2016CA031002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N0684
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 85193
  • User Project ID: 2016-HAN-MLRA16 and MLRA 17-001
  • Project Name: MLRA 16 and MLRA 17 - Bay Delta Pedon Characterizations for CEAP
  • 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: 35.9464500
  • Std. Longitude: -119.8440600
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23S
  • Range: 20E
  • Section: 7
  • Location Description: Mountain Diablo.
  • Map Unit: 126—Houser clay, partially drained
  • State: California
  • County: CA031—Kings
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys
  • Regional Office: SW—Southwest
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-HAN—Hanford, California
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA031—Kings County, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 35119-H7—Dudley Ridge, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Phil Smith, Rafael Ortiz, Kerry Arroues
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, calcareous, thermic Vertic Fluvaquents
  • 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 - Houser
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, calcareous, thermic Vertic Fluvaquents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 2/24/2016
  • Classifier - Phil Smith
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey lacustrine deposits derived from igneous and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: lakebed
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Ponding: occasional ponding begining in jan
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/24/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Phil Smith, Rafael Ortiz, Kerry Arroues
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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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    58.7

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    0

    190

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    255

    17.8

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; clay; 40 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; moderately few (0.5) medium roots throughout and very few (0.1) fine roots throughout; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N03024; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Ap2—10 to 22 centimeters (3.9 to 8.7 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; clay; 42 percent clay; structureless massive; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; moderately few (0.5) medium roots throughout and very few (0.1) fine roots throughout; carbonate, finely disseminated and 1 percent medium irregular very strongly coherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N03025; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bknzg1—22 to 42 centimeters (8.7 to 16.5 inches); 50 percent N 4/1 (N 4/1) and 40 percent olive (5Y 4/3), 50 percent gray (5Y 5/1) and 40 percent olive (5Y 5/3), dry; clay; 48 percent clay; structureless massive; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; moderately few (0.5) medium roots throughout and very few (0.1) fine roots throughout; common (2.0) very fine dendritic tubular pores; 7 percent fine irregular dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist,; carbonate, finely disseminated and 3 percent fine threadlike white (2.5Y 8/1) carbonate masses; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N03026; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bknzg2—42 to 54 centimeters (16.5 to 21.3 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) and olive (5Y 4/3), gray (5Y 6/1) and olive (5Y 5/3), dry; clay; 42 percent clay; structureless massive; extremely hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots throughout and moderately few (0.5) medium roots throughout; many (7.0) very fine dendritic tubular pores; 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along root channels; carbonate, finely disseminated and 1 percent very fine threadlike white (2.5Y 8/1), moist, carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N03027; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bnzg—54 to 67 centimeters (21.3 to 26.4 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; silt loam; 20 percent sand; 26 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately few (0.2) very fine roots throughout and moderately few (0.2) medium roots throughout; many (8.0) very fine dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent fine irregular yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 30 percent medium irregular dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N03028; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bnyzg1—67 to 87 centimeters (26.4 to 34.3 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dry; clay; 50 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; very few (0.1) very fine roots throughout; common (3.0) very fine dendritic tubular pores; 3 percent coarse dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 15 percent medium dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 30 percent irregular gray (5Y 5/1), moist, in matrix; 10 percent medium irregular gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N03029; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bnyzg2—87 to 120 centimeters (34.3 to 47.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; clay; 50 percent clay; weak very coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; very few (0.1) very fine roots throughout; few (0.1) very fine dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent coarse irregular yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 5 percent coarse gypsum crystals, unspecified and 10 percent medium irregular gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N03030; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bnyzg3—120 to 196 centimeters (47.2 to 77.2 inches); 70 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) and 30 percent olive gray (5Y 4/2), 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 30 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dry; silt loam; 25 percent sand; 20 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 30 percent very coarse strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; carbonate, finely disseminated and 1 percent medium gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bknyzg—196 to 215 centimeters (77.2 to 84.6 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1), light gray (5Y 7/1), dry; clay; 55 percent clay; structureless massive; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; and 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron along lamina or strata surfaces and 1 percent very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1), moist, iron-manganese masses and 5 percent coarse irregular dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; and 1 percent fine gypsum crystals, unspecified along lamina or strata surfaces and 1 percent medium irregular moderately coherent cemented carbonate concretions in matrix and 1 percent very fine gypsum crystals, unspecified in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 16N03033; observed in pit, large or quarry