IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Musick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994CA019006
  • User Pedon ID: 94CA019006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0344
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66522
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • 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: 37.0750008
  • Std. Longitude: -119.3750000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10S
  • Range: 24E
  • Section: 8
  • Location Description: Jose Basin.
  • State: California
  • County: CA019—Fresno
  • MLRA: 22—Sierra Nevada Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA750—Sierra National Forest Area Parts of Fresno, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37119-A3—Shaver Lake, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: TE, DB
  • 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
  • PSC - 18 to 58 cm.
  • 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 - 15 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/15/1993
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 27 percent of Percent clay in the control section


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/15/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 186-174
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    165 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—183

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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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    1158

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    92

    889

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    Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Pine & Oak litter on top.
    A—3 to 18 centimeters (1.2 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), black (10YR 2/1), moist; 15 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine to medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P2107
    ABt—18 to 49 centimeters (7.1 to 19.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine to medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P2108
    Bt1—49 to 100 centimeters (19.3 to 39.4 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6), red (2.5YR 4/8), moist; 31 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine to medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 30 percent prominent on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P2109
    Bt2—100 to 133 centimeters (39.4 to 52.4 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6), red (2.5YR 4/8), moist; 23 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 75 percent distinct on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P2110
    Bt3—133 to 183 centimeters (52.4 to 72.0 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6), red (2.5YR 5/6), moist; 15 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent faint on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 94P2111