IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Musick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983CA019302
  • User Pedon ID: 83CA019302
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0458
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54702
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: T. 10S. R. 25E.
  • State: California
  • County: CA019—Fresno

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S.M. and D.C.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 302
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Musick
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/16/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Musick
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Argillic Ultic Haploxeralf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1983 (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
    • 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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    220

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    270

    114

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    1BAt—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, moist; clay loam; 20 percent clay; massive; very hard, very firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 55 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 84P02440. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine and medium roots
    1Bt1—15 to 89 centimeters (5.9 to 35.0 inches);, red (2.5YR 4/6) interior, moist; clay; 33 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 1.0 medium and coarse roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 55 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P02441. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few to common medium and coarse roots
    1CB—89 to 152 centimeters (35.0 to 59.8 inches);, yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, moist; clay loam; 18 percent clay; massive; hard, firm, nonsticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter. Lab sample # 84P02442. Full of mica causing greasy feel and nonsticky yet plastic.