IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Badland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986CA019050
  • User Pedon ID: 86CA019050
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986CA019050
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0245
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59541
  • 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: 36.5708351
  • Std. Longitude: -120.6083298
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16S
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4, SE 1/4, NE 1/4
  • Location Description: Monocline Ridge Quad.
  • State: California
  • County: CA019—Fresno
  • MLRA: 17—Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: K. Arroues
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Xeric Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: miscellaneous area
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 50
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Badland
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Badland
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: high
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1986 (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

    ATRIP

    ERIN4

    Atriplex

    Eriogonum inflatum

    saltbush

    desert trumpet

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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

    50

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    292

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    180

    20

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    17

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    20

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    1C—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4) interior, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, moist; loam; massive; 6 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P01223; dry when described;
    1Cr—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments.