IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Diablo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012CA079002
  • User Pedon ID: S2012CA079002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N4945
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72966
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 35.3676100
  • Std. Longitude: -120.8200600
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Grazed rangeland, near East-South of Morrow Bay. North facing aspect.
  • State: California
  • County: CA079—San Luis Obispo
  • MLRA: 15—Central California Coast Range
  • Regional Office: SW—Southwest
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-TEM—Templeton, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Phil Smith, Bev Harben
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Aridic Haploxererts
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Diablo
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, thermic Aridic Haploxererts
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/10/2013
  • Classifier - Phil Smith
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/5/2012 (monitoring equipment installed)
  • Data Collector: Phil Smith, Bev Harben
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Water Properties:
  • Water pH Method - pH indicator solutions
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    slickensides

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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

    10

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    35

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    306

    533

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    313

    15

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    SLO-2

    SLO_NRCS_Morro Bay

    SM/ST
    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silty clay; 55 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky, and strong fine subangular blocky, and weak medium granular structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; common (3.0) very fine roots between peds and many (2.0) very fine roots throughout; few (0.1) very fine dendritic tubular pores; 3 irreversible trans-horizon cracks per meter at a depth of 78 cm with a width of 2 cm that extend above and below the horizon and 3 irreversible trans-horizon cracks per meter at a depth of 78 cm with a width of 2 cm that extend above and below the horizon; fragments and 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 20-50-75 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; neutral, pH 7.1, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03299; observed in pit, small
    Bss—5 to 50 centimeters (2.0 to 19.7 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silty clay; 55 percent clay; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; common (4.0) very fine roots throughout; few (0.1) very fine dendritic tubular pores; 3 irreversible trans-horizon cracks per meter at a depth of 78 cm with a width of 2 cm that extend above and below the horizon and 3 irreversible trans-horizon cracks per meter at a depth of 78 cm with a width of 2 cm that extend above and below the horizon; 25 percent faint slickensides (pedogenic) on top faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 3-15-20 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; neutral, pH 7.1, pH indicator solutions; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N03300; observed in pit, small
    Bssk1—50 to 82 centimeters (19.7 to 32.3 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silty clay; 50 percent clay; weak very coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; few (0.1) very fine dendritic tubular pores; 3 irreversible trans-horizon cracks per meter at a depth of 78 cm with a width of 2 cm that extend below the horizon and 3 irreversible trans-horizon cracks per meter at a depth of 78 cm with a width of 2 cm that extend above and below the horizon; 20 percent faint slickensides (pedogenic) on top faces of peds; 2 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with sharp boundaries throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 3-15-20 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH indicator solutions; diffuse wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bssk2—82 to 118 centimeters (32.3 to 46.5 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silty clay; 58 percent clay; weak very coarse prismatic structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3 irreversible trans-horizon cracks per meter at a depth of 78 cm with a width of 2 cm that extend below the horizon; 20 percent faint slickensides (pedogenic) on top faces of peds; 4 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with sharp boundaries throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 3-15-20 millimeter mixed fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH indicator solutions; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 13N03302; observed in pit, small
    CB—118 to 150 centimeters (46.5 to 59.1 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; very gravelly sandy clay loam; 35 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, moderately plastic; 2 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with sharp boundaries throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 13N03303; observed in pit, small