IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tethrick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990CA109114
  • User Pedon ID: 90CA109114
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0732
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63771
  • 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: 38.0302773
  • Std. Longitude: -120.0233307
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 17
  • Location Description: Pit in edge of gully above 2N58 - 220 yards N of closed off spur.
  • State: California
  • County: CA109—Tuolumne
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Humic Dystroxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 114
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tethrick
  • PSC - 30 to 105 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 - Tethrick
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Dystric Xerochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    0—18

    15—81

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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

    58

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    1402

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    270

    145

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    O—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments. fresh dead and decomposing pine and fir needles and twigs
    A—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 7 percent clay; moderate fine and medium granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and 0.5 medium and coarse tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04130. few coarse roots; common medium roots
    BA—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; stony sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 7 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and 0.5 medium and coarse tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04131. common coarse roots; many very fine and fine roots
    Bw—43 to 81 centimeters (16.9 to 31.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; stony sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 8 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 medium and coarse tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04132. few coarse roots; common very fine roots
    C1—81 to 132 centimeters (31.9 to 52.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; sandy loam; 71 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 6 percent clay; massive, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very 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; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04133. few medium and coarse roots; few very fine roots
    C2—132 to 170 centimeters (52.0 to 66.9 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 6 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 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; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P04134. few very fine and fine roots; few medium and coarse roots