IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Musick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1967-CA-05-028x
  • User Pedon ID: 67-CA-05-028x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1967-CA-05-028x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6705028
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42139
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 38.4112133
  • Std. Longitude: -120.5629691
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: SW/4, SE/4
  • Map Unit: 6206—Musick-Hotaw complex, 8 to 30 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA009—Calaveras
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA630—Central Sierra Foothills Area, California, Parts of Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38120-D5—West Point, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JAD
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Ultic Palexeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Musick
  • PSC - 39 to 89 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/30/2017
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - HOLLAND
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Classificaton Date - 1/21/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Biotite Hornblende Granitic Ro formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/21/2009 (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

    QUKE

    Quercus kelloggii

    California black oak

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    3—26

    39—257

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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

    40

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    780

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    292

    940

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    11.7

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # UCD03063
    A—3 to 26 centimeters (1.2 to 10.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; sandy loam; 52 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 19 percent clay; moderate medium granular parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03064
    AB—26 to 39 centimeters (10.2 to 15.4 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), 50 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) and 50 percent 5YR 3/6 (5YR 3/6), moist; sandy clay loam; 50 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 23 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03065
    BAt—39 to 64 centimeters (15.4 to 25.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), 50 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) and 50 percent 5YR 3/6 (5YR 3/6), moist; loam; 46 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 26 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03066
    Bt1—64 to 125 centimeters (25.2 to 49.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), 5YR 3/6 (5YR 3/6), moist; clay loam; 43 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 29 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores and 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # UCD03067
    Bt2—125 to 155 centimeters (49.2 to 61.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), 5YR 3/6 (5YR 3/6), moist; sandy clay loam; 46 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 31 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 75 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1. Lab sample # UCD03068
    BCt—155 to 257 centimeters (61.0 to 101.2 inches); sandy clay loam; 50 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 27 percent clay; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9. Lab sample # UCD03069
    C—257 to 321 centimeters (101.2 to 126.4 inches); coarse sandy loam; 77 percent sand; 4 percent silt; 18 percent clay; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9. Lab sample # UCD03070