IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sanhedrin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979CA045116
  • User Pedon ID: 79CA045116
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0519
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48290
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 39.7874985
  • Std. Longitude: -123.0880585
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 2500 feet E 500 feet N of SW corner
  • Location Description: LAUSD (Mexico Ridge)
  • State: California
  • County: CA045—Mendocino
  • MLRA: 15—Central California Coast Range

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SJB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 116
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sanhedrin
  • Classificaton Date - 11/30/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sanhedrin
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Ultic Argixeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1979
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    30

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    1147

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    315

    116

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    15

    22

    8

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    1A1—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P02927. 15 percent 2-20 mm gravel. 2 duff on surface.; many very fine roots; many coarse roots
    1B21—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; gravelly loam; 23 percent clay; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; 15 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02928. 20 percent 2-20 mm gravel.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; many very fine roots; many coarse roots
    1B22—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, moist; gravelly clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 1.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 15 percent clay films on faces of peds and 55 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02929. 25 percent 2-20 mm gravel.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; many clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; common very fine roots; common medium roots
    1B23—81 to 109 centimeters (31.9 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, moist; gravelly clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 5.5 fine and medium roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; 15 percent clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P02930. 20 percent 2-50 mm gravel, 8 percent 3-6 cobbles.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; common very fine roots; many fine and medium roots
    1R—109 to 114 centimeters (42.9 to 44.9 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled. Hard sandstone and siltstone with fractures 1/4 to 2 apart.