IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Badland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986CA019037
  • User Pedon ID: 86CA019037
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986CA019037
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0232
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59528
  • Print Date: 5/18/2024

    • 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: 36.5705566
  • Std. Longitude: -120.6833344
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16S
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4, NW 1/4, SE 1/4
  • Location Description: just W of road near rock outcrops.
  • State: California
  • County: CA019—Fresno
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: K. Arroues and B. Hughes
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, smectitic, acid, thermic Lithic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: miscellaneous area
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 37
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Badland
  • PSC - 0 to 15 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Badland
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, mixed, thermic Lithic Xerorthent
  • Taxon Kind - miscellaneous area
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ERIN4

    Eriogonum inflatum

    desert trumpet

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—15

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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

    3

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    311

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    270

    20

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    17

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    22

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; very shaly clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01201; dry when described;. many very fine roots
    1Cr—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; fragments. Lab sample # 87P01202. Highly fractured shale fragments are all less than 8 cm in size.