IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Musick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977-CA-55-046x
  • User Pedon ID: 77-CA-55-046x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1977-CA-55-046x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7755046
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42353
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 37.9831146
  • Std. Longitude: -120.2334542
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 16E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: NE/4, SE/4
  • Map Unit: 6038—Musick-Wukusick complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes, low precipitation
  • State: California
  • County: CA109—Tuolumne
  • 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: 37120-H2—Tuolumne, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: COS, BFS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Musick
  • PSC - 49 to 99 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/21/2017
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - BOOMER
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Classificaton Date - 3/2/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: diorite
  • Geology: Gabbro-diorite. Geologic Forma formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/2/2009 (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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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    3—49

    49—160

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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

    58

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    884

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    90

    1016

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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 # UCD04012
    A1—3 to 11 centimeters (1.2 to 4.3 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; fine sandy loam; 57 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 12 percent clay; strong medium granular parts to strong fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 medium irregular and 21.0 medium tubular and 21.0 fine tubular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD04013
    A2—11 to 49 centimeters (4.3 to 19.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 58 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 14 percent clay; massive; soft, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 coarse roots throughout; 21.0 medium tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD04014
    Bt1—49 to 69 centimeters (19.3 to 27.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; gravelly fine sandy loam; 54 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 medium tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on top faces of peds; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD04015
    Bt2—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 53 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 21 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 medium tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on top faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; gradual boundary. Lab sample # UCD04016
    Bt3—94 to 160 centimeters (37.0 to 63.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 50 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 55 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 24 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual boundary. Lab sample # UCD04017