IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): San Joaquin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978CA077000
  • User Pedon ID: 78CA077000
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0091
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46275
  • Print Date: 1/14/2025

    • 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: 37.1821556
  • Std. Longitude: -120.1843185
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9S
  • Range: 16E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: About 1/8 mile N of railroad crossing in
  • Location Description: Merced County, CA.
  • State: California
  • County: CA047—Merced
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RU/RJA/JEM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, thermic Typic Durixeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - San Joaquin
  • Classificaton Date - 4/25/2008
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - San Joaquin
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Runoff: low
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    1A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior, moist; sandy loam; massive, and weak very fine granular; very hard, very friable; 0.5 tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00473. Abundant fine grass roots. Low in organic matter.
    1B1—13 to 53 centimeters (5.1 to 20.9 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) interior, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, moist; loam; moderate fine blocky structure; hard, friable; clay films on faces of peds and clay films in root channels and/or pores and clay films between sand grains; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00474. Very low in organic matter.; continuous - phpvsfiid 213970; continuous - phpvsfiid 213971; continuous - phpvsfiid 213972; continuous - phpvsfiid 213970; continuous - phpvsfiid 213971; continuous - phpvsfiid 213972
    1B2—53 to 64 centimeters (20.9 to 25.2 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) interior, yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, moist; sandy clay; strong fine and medium blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 0.5 fine tubular pores; clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P00475. continuous - phpvsfiid 213973; continuous - phpvsfiid 213973
    1Cm—64 to 102 centimeters (25.2 to 40.2 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) interior, red (2.5YR 4/6) interior, moist; unknown texture; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00476. Indurated iron silica hardpan. Upper 2 to 4 inches smooth on the upper surface and very dense with some dark manganese stains in seams or fissures becoming less strongly cemented with increasing depth and containing a few lime seams in the l
    1C—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, moist; gritty sandy loam; massive; hard, firm; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 79P00478. Becomes less hardened and consolidated with increasing depth.