IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Diablo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965CA053010
  • User Pedon ID: S1965CA053010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1965CA053010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3098
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38227
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 36.1622238
  • Std. Longitude: -120.9300003
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20S
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: East 1/4 line, SE corner of SE1/4 of NE1/4
  • Location Description: about 6 miles east of San Lucas off Highway 198.
  • State: California
  • County: CA053—Monterey
  • MLRA: 14—Central California Coastal Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA053—Monterey County, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lewis C. Leifer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Aridic Haploxererts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Diablo
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Diablo
  • Classificaton Date - 5/19/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/19/1965 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BROMU

    Bromus

    brome

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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

    26

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    366

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    45

    254

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    16.7

    20

    15

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    A11—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) clay; moderate coarse angular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24223; moist when described;. surface has 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick layer of fine strong subangular blocks occurring on 75 percent of the area.
    A12—13 to 46 centimeters (5.1 to 18.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1); moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24224; moist when described;
    A13—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.1 very fine tubular and 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) and 30 percent pressure faces; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24225; moist when described;. distinct slickensides do not appear to intersect.
    A14—76 to 99 centimeters (29.9 to 39.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial and 0.1 very fine tubular pores; pressure faces and slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24226; moist when described;
    A15—99 to 135 centimeters (39.0 to 53.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.0 roots; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24227; moist when described;
    C—135 to 173 centimeters (53.1 to 68.1 inches);, pale yellow (5Y 7/3), moist; fragments. Lab sample # 40A24228; moist when described;. shale can be broken in hand with some difficulty.