IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Josephine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982CA017310
  • User Pedon ID: 82CA017310
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0256
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 52498
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 38.9315605
  • Std. Longitude: -120.7571335
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 33
  • State: California
  • County: CA017—El Dorado
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: EBA and KBL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Haploxerults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 310
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Josephine
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Josephine
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Haploxerult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1982
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—8

    8—89

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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

    10

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    991

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    225

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    O—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); undecomposed organic matter; fragments. Loose manzanita, oak, and madrane lvs.
    A—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) interior, moist; loam; 21 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P01169. common very fine roots; few fine roots
    AB—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches);, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, moist; loam; 26 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P01170. common very fine roots; few fine and medium roots
    Bt1—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches);, yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, moist; clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P01171. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots; few fine and medium roots
    Bt2—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches);, 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8) interior, moist; gravelly clay loam; 36 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 83P01172. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots; common medium roots
    BC1—56 to 94 centimeters (22.0 to 37.0 inches);, yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior, moist; gravelly clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 55 percent faint , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 83P01173. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots; few medium roots
    C—94 to 122 centimeters (37.0 to 48.0 inches);, reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) interior, moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 83P01174. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots
    Cr—122 to 126 centimeters (48.0 to 49.6 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Soft, weathered schist, some veins of hard quartz.