IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pardee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1960CA005022
  • User Pedon ID: S1960CA005022
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1960CA005022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2866
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37445
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.2516670
  • Std. Longitude: -120.9313889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 0.3 miles west and 0.1 mile north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: On Strohm's Ranch, 1/2 mile east of Jackson Valley-Comanche Road, 3.5 miles northeast of Comanche; 1.6 miles southwest of Buena Vista Peaks.
  • State: California
  • County: CA005—Amador
  • MLRA: 18—Sierra Nevada Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA628—Amador Area, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Grant Kennedy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Mollic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 22
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pardee (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 23 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/18/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pardee
  • Classificaton Date - 5/3/1960
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/3/1960 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUERC

    Quercus

    oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    46 - 104

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    densic contact

    0—23

    23—46

    46—104

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    —23—

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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

    4

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    168

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    270

    559

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    16.1

    31.1

    7.8

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; cobbly loam; 44 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 12 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A22613
    A2—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; gravelly loam; 45 percent sand; 44 percent silt; 11 percent clay; massive; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine pores; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A22614
    Bt1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; very cobbly clay loam; 41 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 17 percent clay; massive; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; clay films in root channels and/or pores; 35 percent by volume 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A22615. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1540075; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1540075
    Bt2—36 to 43 centimeters (14.2 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly clay loam; 43 percent sand; 40 percent silt; 17 percent clay; massive; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; clay films in root channels and/or pores; 60 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A22616. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1540076; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1540076
    2Bt3—43 to 46 centimeters (16.9 to 18.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) and light gray (10YR 7/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay; 29 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 57 percent clay; massive; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; clay films throughout; 35 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A22617
    2Cd—46 to 104 centimeters (18.1 to 40.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and gray (5Y 5/1), grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) and dark gray (5Y 4/1) and gray (5Y 5/1), moist; coarse sandy loam; 72 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 18 percent clay; massive; very hard, extremely firm; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A22618. Consolidated andesitic conglomerate.