IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MASTERSON
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959-CA-10-021
  • User Pedon ID: 59-CA-10-021
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959-CA-10-021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD5910021
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41947
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 37.0017433
  • Std. Longitude: -119.0693512
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11S
  • Range: 27E
  • Section: 6
  • State: California
  • County: CA019—Fresno
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA750—Sierra National Forest Area Parts of Fresno, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37119-A1—Nelson Mountain, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JF, GH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MASTERSON
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Classificaton Date - 2/2/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: metasedimentary rock, unspecified
  • Geology: Metasedimentary formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/2/2009 (entry creation 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

    PIPO

    Pinus ponderosa

    ponderosa pine

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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

    45

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    2073

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    270

    1067

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    7.8

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    O1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD03332
    O2—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD03333
    A11—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (7.5YR 2/2), moist; cobbly sandy loam; strong fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03334
    A12—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; cobbly sandy loam; massive parts to structureless granular; soft, very friable; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03335
    B2t—46 to 122 centimeters (18.1 to 48.0 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist; fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD03336
    C—122 to 122 centimeters (48.0 to 48.0 inches); 10YR 6/ (10YR 6/),, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist; very gravelly loamy fine sand; slightly hard, friable; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # UCD03337