IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): McCarthy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990CA061002
  • User Pedon ID: 90CA061002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0419
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63465
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 39.1647224
  • Std. Longitude: -120.6786118
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 700 feet S and 100 feet E of NW 1/4 corner
  • Location Description: About 3 miles NE on Forest Hill Divide road from the intersection with Elliot Ranch Road to Italian Bar Road, turn N on Italian Bar Road for 1.8 mile then SW about 1.5 mile to block #81site. Westville 7.5 min quad.
  • State: California
  • County: CA061—Placer
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W.B.S., J.R.M., T.S.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial-skeletal, amorphic, mesic Thaptic Haploxerands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - McCarthy
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - McCarthy
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial-skeletal, mesic Andic Xerumbrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1990 (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
    • 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

    15

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    1512

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; gravelly sandy loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P02407. Ap is disturbed due to clear cutting and site preparation into brush piles; Ap is hydrophobic; few fine roots; common very fine roots
    A1—18 to 48 centimeters (7.1 to 18.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P02408. few fine roots; common very fine roots
    A2—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P02409. common very fine roots
    Cr—74 to 86 centimeters (29.1 to 33.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; fragments. weathered and fractured andesitic mudflow; Cr is lightweight(close to 1.0 BD)