IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pardee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1960CA005023
  • User Pedon ID: S1960CA005023
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2867
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37446
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 38.2569427
  • Std. Longitude: -120.9599991
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 0.1 mile east of the W 1/4 corner
  • Location Description: 1/4 mile northwest of Grapevine Gulch; 300 feet southeast of Rabbit Creek Road (Jackson Valley to Clements Road), 2.7 miles west-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, thermic Lithic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 23
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pardee
  • PSC - 33 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pardee
  • Classificaton Date - 5/3/1960
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: foothills
  • 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
    • 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

    3

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    91

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    225

    508

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    16.1

    31.1

    7.8

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    A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; gravelly loam; weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A22619. Thin (1/4 inch) dark mulch covers surface.
    A12—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; gravelly loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A22620
    B1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; gravelly loam; massive; hard when dry, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; 40 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter quartzite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A22621. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 188013; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 188013
    B2t—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; gravelly clay loam; massive; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 30 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; andesitic-ash fragments and 50 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter quartzite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A22622
    IIC1—43 to 74 centimeters (16.9 to 29.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; weathered bedrock; massive; very hard, extremely firm; 0.5 roots in cracks; clay films; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter andesitic-ash fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A22623. 1 inch in diameter (7.5YR 5/4) seams; weathered tuffaceous conglomerate; clay nearly fills some of the larger voids between cobbles.
    IIC2—74 to 97 centimeters (29.1 to 38.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; massive; very hard; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A22624. Consolidated tuffaceous conglomerate.