IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sierra
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959CA005016
  • User Pedon ID: S1959CA005016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2909
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37488
  • 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: 38.5127792
  • Std. Longitude: -120.7977753
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: California on the Ken Deaver Ranch, 1/2 mile south of Shenandoah School on the Shenandoah School Road in the SW1/4 of the SW1/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA005—Amador
  • MLRA: 18—Sierra Nevada Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA628—Amador Area, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Grant Kennedy, Reuben Nelson, Bob Sketchley, John Rogers
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sierra
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/13/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sierra
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    9

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    475

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    838

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; coarse sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 10 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A22937
    AB—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; loam; 42 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 25 percent clay; massive; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine and 1.0 medium and coarse and 3.0 fine pores; 10 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A22938. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1680509; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1680509
    BA—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; loam; massive; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine and 1.0 medium and coarse and 3.0 fine pores; clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A22939. continuous - phpvsfiid 1680515; continuous - phpvsfiid 1680515
    Bt—69 to 122 centimeters (27.2 to 48.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; clay loam; 38 percent sand; 32 percent silt; 30 percent clay; massive; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 1.0 fine pores; clay bridges between sand grains and 30 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A22940. continuous - phpvsfiid 1680510; continuous - phpvsfiid 1680510
    BC—122 to 173 centimeters (48.0 to 68.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; loam; 42 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 23 percent clay; massive; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 1.0 fine pores; clay films in root channels and/or pores and clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A22941. continuous - phpvsfiid 1680512; continuous - phpvsfiid 1680512
    C—173 to 198 centimeters (68.1 to 78.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) and dark red (2.5YR 3/6), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) and dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; fine sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 12 percent clay; massive; hard when dry, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A22942. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1680514; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1680514