IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sanikara
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05ca08564182
  • User Pedon ID: 05ca08564182
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 05ca08564182
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0676
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19554
  • Print Date: 4/22/2026

    • 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: 37.3054722
  • Std. Longitude: -122.1364806
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Monte Bello Open Space, Black Mountain, Waterwheel Creek Trail, south end towards the vinyards on south facing slope, in brush.
  • Map Unit: 520—Mouser-Maymen complex, 30 to 75 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA085—Santa Clara
  • MLRA: 15—Central California Coast Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA641—Santa Clara Area, California, Western Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37122-C2—Mindego Hill, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: William Reed and Valerie Bullard
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sanikara
  • PSC - 22 to 37 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sanikara
  • Classificaton Date - 10/13/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium over residuum
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: slight weathered greenstone at 37cm
  • Geology: Greenstone formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent angular strongly coherent cemented 2- to 30-millimeter greenstone,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/13/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ADFA

    ARCA11

    CECU

    TODI

    Adenostoma fasciculatum

    Artemisia californica

    Ceanothus cuneatus

    Toxicodendron diversilobum

    chamise

    coastal sagebrush

    buckbrush

    Pacific poison oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    37 - 50

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—22

    22—37

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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

    40

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    729

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    210

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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; gravelly sandy loam; 21 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-22-75 millimeter greenstone fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face, moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-17-75 millimeter greenstone fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—10 to 22 centimeters (3.9 to 8.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face, moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; 23 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout; 1.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 medium tubular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 25 percent by volume angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-32-75 millimeter greenstone fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—22 to 37 centimeters (8.7 to 14.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; very gravelly loam; 27 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 medium roots throughout; 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on rock fragments; 50 percent by volume angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-35-75 millimeter greenstone fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    R—37 to 40 centimeters (14.6 to 15.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small. Hard, fractured greenstone that is slightly weathered.