IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Windy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990CA009109
  • User Pedon ID: 90CA009109
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0717
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63756
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 38.3499985
  • Std. Longitude: -120.0999985
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Roadcut on 6N08, approximately 200 feet W of junction with 5N14. Section 21.
  • State: California
  • County: CA009—Calaveras
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial-skeletal, amorphic, frigid Humic Vitrixerands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 109
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Windy
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Windy
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, frigid Andic Xerumbrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1990 (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

    andic soil properties

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

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    0—41

    41—92

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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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    1983

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    0

    152

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    O—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); fragments. fresh dead and decomposing needles and twigs
    A—8 to 41 centimeters (3.1 to 16.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine crumb structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04075; moist when described;. few medium and coarse roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Bw—41 to 92 centimeters (16.1 to 36.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; 63 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 5 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium and coarse roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 12 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04076; moist when described;. sampled from pit 50' above cut; common very fine and fine roots; common medium and coarse roots
    C1—92 to 143 centimeters (36.2 to 56.3 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; 68 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 0.5 fine and medium tubular and 2.5 fine interstitial pores; 14 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04077; moist when described;. few coarse roots; common medium roots
    C2—143 to 160 centimeters (56.3 to 63.0 inches); loamy coarse sand; 79 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 6 percent clay; fragments. Lab sample # 91P04078. soft weathered tuff breccia