IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sierra
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990CA109101
  • User Pedon ID: 90CA109101
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0719
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63758
  • 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: 37.8227768
  • Std. Longitude: -120.0183334
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 29
  • State: California
  • County: CA109—Tuolumne
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Ultic Palexeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 101
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sierra
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/29/2015
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sierra
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Ultic Haploxeralf
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1990
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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—23

    23—155

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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

    18

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    914

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    225

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    O—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. fresh dead and decomposing manzanita leaves and twigs
    A—3 to 23 centimeters (1.2 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; loam; 61 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse granular structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 medium and coarse tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04081. a very thin 3/4" A horizon could be described here - slightly darker in color than the material directly below; few very fine and fine roots; few medium and coarse roots
    Bt1—23 to 84 centimeters (9.1 to 33.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; clay loam; 41 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 36 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 medium and coarse tubular pores; 55 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04082. many clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few fine and medium roots; few coarse roots
    Bt2—84 to 155 centimeters (33.1 to 61.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; clay loam; 52 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 25 percent clay; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 medium and coarse tubular pores; 37 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P04083. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few medium roots