IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Akers
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016CA107003
  • User Pedon ID: S2016CA107003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0494
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87592
  • 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: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 36.0650472
  • Std. Longitude: -119.2677917
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21S
  • Range: 25E
  • Section: 34
  • Map Unit: 101—Akers-Akers, saline-Sodic, complex, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA107—Tulare
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys
  • Regional Office: SW—Southwest
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-HAN—Hanford, California
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA659—Tulare County, Western Part, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36119-A3—Tipton, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Phil Smith, Rafael Ortiz, Jacob Haze
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Calcic Haploxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Akers
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/2/2016
  • Classifier - Phil Smith, Rafael Ortiz, Jacob Haze
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/2/2016 (entry creation date)
  • Data Collector: Phil Smith, Rafael Ortiz, Jacob Haze
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—48

    177—210

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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

    —

    —

    90.7

    —

    92

    —

    285

    17.2

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    —

    —

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    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; 15 percent clay; weak thick platy, and weak medium platy, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; many (5.0) very coarse roots throughout and moderately few (0.3) coarse roots throughout; common (3.0) very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02568; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Ap2—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, nonplastic; many (5.0) very coarse roots throughout and moderately few (0.3) coarse roots throughout; common (3.0) very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.2, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02569; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bw—18 to 48 centimeters (7.1 to 18.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; 12 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderately few (0.9) very fine roots throughout and very few (0.1) coarse roots throughout; common (2.0) very fine dendritic tubular and many (5.0) fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02570; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bk1—48 to 88 centimeters (18.9 to 34.6 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak very coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderately few (0.4) very fine roots throughout and very few (0.1) fine roots throughout; many (5.0) very fine dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent fine threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02571; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bk2—88 to 118 centimeters (34.6 to 46.5 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak very coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; very few (0.2) very fine roots throughout and very few (0.1) medium roots throughout and very few (0.1) fine roots throughout; many (5.0) very fine dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent fine spherical noncoherent cemented carbonate masses and 1 percent fine threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02572; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bk3—118 to 145 centimeters (46.5 to 57.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak very coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; very few (0.1) very fine roots throughout; many (5.0) very fine dendritic tubular and few (1.0) fine dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent medium spherical noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02573; observed in pit, large or quarry
    BC—145 to 177 centimeters (57.1 to 69.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak very coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; very few (0.1) very fine roots throughout and very few (0.1) fine roots throughout; many (5.0) very fine dendritic tubular and few (1.0) fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02574; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2Btk—177 to 210 centimeters (69.7 to 82.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; clay loam; 39 percent clay; weak very coarse subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, nonplastic; very few (0.1) very fine roots throughout; common (4.0) very fine dendritic tubular and common (2.0) fine dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds and 15 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films between sand grains; 10 percent coarse iron-manganese masses in matrix; 8 percent coarse irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses and 3 percent fine threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses and 3 percent medium irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02575; observed in pit, large or quarry