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The Panoche Hills are a low mountain range in the Southern Inner California Coast Ranges System, in western Fresno County, California. [ 1] They are east of the Diablo Range, on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley. They define the eastern side of the Panoche Valley .
Panoche Valley. / 36.61667°N 120.85111°W / 36.61667; -120.85111. Panoche Valley is a grassland valley lying between the Diablo Range and the San Joaquin Valley, in San Benito County, California. [1] The valley is bound on the north by Panoche Hills, on the east by Tumey Hills, on the south by the Griswold Hills and Cerro Bonito, and ...
San Joaquin (soil) San Joaquin is an officially designated state insignia, the state soil of the U.S. state of California . The California Central Valley has more than 500,000 acres (2,000 km 2) of San Joaquin soils, named for the south end of that valley. This series is the oldest continuously recognized soil series within the state.
The Storie index is a method of soil rating based on soil characteristics that govern the land's potential use and productivity capacity.Developed by R. Earl Storie at University of California, Berkeley in the 1930s as a method of land valuation, it is independent of other physical or economic factors that might determine the desirability of growing certain plants in a given location.
Coordinates: 36.910°N 120.980°W. Rancho Panoche de San Juan y Los Carrisalitos was a 22,175-acre (89.74 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Merced County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Julian Ursua and Pedro Romo. [1] The name means "raw sugar of San Juan and the little patches of reeds" in Spanish.
Soil types by clay, silt and sand composition as used by the United States Department of Agriculture. Loam (in geology and soil science) is soil composed mostly of sand (particle size > 63 micrometres (0.0025 in)), silt (particle size > 2 micrometres (7.9 × 10 −5 in)), and a smaller amount of clay (particle size < 2 micrometres (7.9 × 10 −5 in)).
After some recent intense wildfires in Northern California, scientists tested samples of singed soil and were disturbed by their findings: It was laden with a cancer-causing metal called ...
Panoche Creek is a creek in San Benito and Fresno Counties, California, in the United States. Historical names include Arroyo de Panoche Grande (Big Sugarloaf Creek) and the anglicized Big Panoche Creek. For a time its lower reaches were called "Silver Creek." The source of Panoche Creek is a pond just east of Panoche Pass in the Diablo Range.