IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): McDermand
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012CA019003
  • User Pedon ID: S2012CA019003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2012CA019003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0502
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 70875
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • 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: 37.1522361
  • Std. Longitude: -118.6933568
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: California
  • County: CA019—Fresno
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA792—Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37118-B6—Mount Darwin, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Chris Savastio
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, isotic Vitrandic Cryorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from granite and/or slope alluvium and/or till
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: drainageway on glacial-valley floor
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated granite at 51cm with 45 to <100
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent nonflat indurated 2- to 75-millimeter granite, 5.00 percent nonflat indurated 251- to 600-millimeter granite, 5.00 percent nonflat indurated 601- to 3000-millimeter granite, 10.00 percent nonflat indurated 76- to 250-millimeter granite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R022AX008CA Moist Bedrock Pockets Dec 1 2012 David Evans
  • Ecological State: 1 -
  • Community Phase: 1 -

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/24/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    A1

    A2

    A3

    C1

    C2

    0

    5

    15

    25

    34

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    15

    25

    34

    49

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    A1

    A2

    A3

    C1

    C2

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    25

    34

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    34

    49

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    7.4

    10.4

    10.6

    10.3

    10.2

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    A1

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    C1

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ANME2

    CABR

    CAHE8

    CALE18

    CASP5

    ELEOC

    GENE

    JUME3

    JUPA

    ORALA3

    ORPE4

    PEHEH3

    PHBR4

    PICOM

    POSE

    SEWA2

    VACE

    Antennaria media

    Calamagrostis breweri

    Carex heteroneura

    Castilleja lemmonii

    Carex spectabilis

    Eleocharis

    Gentiana newberryi

    Juncus mertensianus

    Juncus parryi

    Oreostemma alpigenum var. andersonii

    Oreostemma peirsonii

    Penstemon heterodoxus var. heterodoxus

    Phyllodoce breweri

    Pinus contorta var. murrayana

    Poa secunda

    Selaginella watsonii

    Vaccinium cespitosum

    Rocky Mountain pussytoes

    shorthair reedgrass

    different-nerve sedge

    Lemmon's Indian paintbrush

    showy sedge

    spikerush

    alpine gentian

    Mertens' rush

    Parry's rush

    tundra aster

    Peirson's aster

    Sierra beardtongue

    purple mountainheath

    Sierra lodgepole pine

    Sandberg bluegrass

    Watson's spikemoss

    dwarf bilberry

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    51 - 200

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

    umbric epipedon

    redox concentrations

    redox concentrations

    lithic contact

    0—25

    5—15

    34—51

    51—200

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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

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; mucky fine sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 9 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02214
    A2—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loamy sand; 84 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 2 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 8.0 fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine irregular pores; 15 percent fine yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 250-425-600 millimeter granite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-163-250 millimeter granite fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02215
    A3—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly coarse sand; 90 percent sand; 9 percent silt; 1 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-425-600 millimeter granite fragments and 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-163-250 millimeter granite fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02216
    C1—25 to 34 centimeters (9.8 to 13.4 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; gravelly coarse sand; 90 percent sand; 8 percent silt; 2 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine irregular pores; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-163-250 millimeter granite fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N02217
    C2—34 to 49 centimeters (13.4 to 19.3 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; gravelly coarse sand; 89 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 0 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine irregular pores; 15 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 7 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-163-250 millimeter granite fragments and 33 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N02218
    2C3—49 to 51 centimeters (19.3 to 20.1 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; very gravelly fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 4 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.8 fine roots throughout; 0.8 very fine irregular pores; 15 percent medium strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-163-250 millimeter granite fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter granite fragments; abrupt broken boundary.
    3R—51 to 200 centimeters (20.1 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.