IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Panoza
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013CA019002
  • User Pedon ID: S2013CA019002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N4943
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72937
  • 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: 36.7328060
  • Std. Longitude: -120.7573610
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Panoche Hills, Western Fresno County, CA. MLRA 15. A soil climate station is placed here for gather data on a south facing aspect. Site has hardly any vegetation, but typical of south facing slopes in area. Erosion is a concern.
  • State: California
  • County: CA019—Fresno
  • MLRA: 15—Central California Coast Range
  • Regional Office: SW—Southwest
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-TEM—Templeton, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Phil Smith, Randy Riddle, Michelle Stropky
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Calcic Haploxerepts
  • 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 - Panoza
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Calcic Haploxerepts
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • PSC - 25 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/8/2013
  • Classifier - Phil Smith
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent indurated 5- to 75-millimeter sedimentary, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/16/2013 (monitoring equipment installed)
  • Data Collector: Phil Smith
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Hydrology Status: unaltered
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Local Disturb. Distance - 1
  • Local Disturb. Description - Sheep trails on the contour
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Water Properties:
  • Water pH Method - pH indicator solutions
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    very strongly coherent

    74 - 100

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    1/16/2013

    1/16/2013

    1/16/2013

    1/16/2013

    10

    102

    20

    50

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    s-tmb-m006

    s-tmb-m006

    s-tmb-m006

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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

    62

    —

    —

    512

    —

    200

    267

    —

    240

    16

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    —

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    PAN-N

    BDI - Panoche - South

    SM/ST
    A—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, moist; fine sandy loam; 11 percent clay; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (1.0) very fine roots throughout and and ; few (1.0) fine dendritic tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix; fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated ? to 3-? millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—11 to 20 centimeters (4.3 to 7.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, moist; fine sandy loam; 13 percent clay; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (1.0) very fine roots throughout; few (1.0) fine dendritic tubular pores; and carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix; fragments and 1 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated ? to 3-? millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary.; moderately moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bk—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3) broken face, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, moist; paragravelly sandy loam; 13 percent clay; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots throughout; few (1.0) fine dendritic tubular pores; carbonate coats on rock fragments; 30 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments and 12 percent by volume nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter mudstone fragments observed by visual inspection method and 12 percent by volume nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 25-50-75 millimeter mudstone fragments observed by visual inspection method; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2C1—30 to 42 centimeters (11.8 to 16.5 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, moist; extremely gravelly clay loam; 31 percent clay; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; few (0.5) very fine roots throughout; ; very fine prominent iron-manganese masses around rock fragments; ferromagnesian minerals around rock fragments; fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 5-8-10 millimeter gypsum crystals fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter gypsum crystals fragments observed by visual inspection method and 30 percent by volume nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 5-8-10 millimeter mudstone fragments observed by visual inspection method; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2C2—42 to 74 centimeters (16.5 to 29.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) broken face, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, moist; fine sandy loam; 16 percent clay; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    2Cr—74 to 100 centimeters (29.1 to 39.4 inches); very rigid, very rigid; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator solutions.; dry when described; observed in pit, small