IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): McCarthy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990CA109124
  • User Pedon ID: 90CA109124
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0742
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63781
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 38.0736122
  • Std. Longitude: -119.9827805
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 27
  • State: California
  • County: CA109—Tuolumne
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial-skeletal, amorphic, mesic Humic Haploxerands
  • 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 #: 124
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - McCarthy
  • PSC - 28 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - McCarthy
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial-skeletal, mesic Andic Xerumbrept
  • Taxon Kind - variant
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1990 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    1120 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    3—31

    31—69

    120—

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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

    15

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    1835

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    225

    140

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    O—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. fresh and decomposing white fir needles
    A—3 to 31 centimeters (1.2 to 12.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; gravelly loam; 60 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 5 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial 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; slight effervescence; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04166. few coarse roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Bw—31 to 69 centimeters (12.2 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly loam; 51 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 medium and coarse tubular pores; 7 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04167. common medium and coarse roots; common very fine roots
    BC—69 to 120 centimeters (27.2 to 47.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist; very gravelly loam; 61 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 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; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04168. few medium and coarse roots; common very fine and fine roots
    Cr—120 to 120 centimeters (47.2 to 47.2 inches); bedrock; fragments; slight effervescence. mehrten mudflow