IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Musick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992CA039102
  • User Pedon ID: 92CA043102
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0424
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64663
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 37.4013901
  • Std. Longitude: -119.6922226
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6S
  • Range: 21E
  • Section: 17
  • State: California
  • County: CA039—Madera
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA750—Sierra National Forest Area Parts of Fresno, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37119-C5—Bass Lake, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: TJE
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Musick
  • Classificaton Date - 11/16/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Musick
  • PSC - 38 to 89 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/5/1991
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/7/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 786-59
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—16

    16—186

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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

    12

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    950

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    134

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    3.3

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments; clear smooth boundary. forest litter
    A1—3 to 16 centimeters (1.2 to 6.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; 17 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P2582
    A2—16 to 41 centimeters (6.3 to 16.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; 23 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 21.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 3.0 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P2583
    Bt1—41 to 69 centimeters (16.1 to 27.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; 28 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P2584
    Bt2—69 to 89 centimeters (27.2 to 35.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; 31 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P2585
    Bt3—89 to 135 centimeters (35.0 to 53.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8), red (2.5YR 4/6), moist; 32 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 75 percent pressure faces on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P2585
    BCt—135 to 155 centimeters (53.1 to 61.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. no sample
    CBt—155 to 186 centimeters (61.0 to 73.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 92P2586