IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): McDermand
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015CA107006
  • User Pedon ID: S2015CA107006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2015CA107006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N0259
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 85182
  • 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: 36.6787083
  • Std. Longitude: -118.4093194
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lake South America
  • Map Unit: 2114—Rock outcrop, granitic-Isosceles-McDermand complex, 2 to 20 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA107—Tulare
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA792—Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Cathy Scott
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, isotic Oxyaquic Humicryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium over residuum
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, center third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated granitoid at 104cm
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter granitoid, 5.00 percent nonflat 250- to 600-millimeter granitoid, 1.00 percent nonflat 600- to 3000-millimeter granitoid, 5.00 percent nonflat 75- to 250-millimeter granitoid,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/5/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Cathy Scott
  • 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 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 % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Bw1

    Bw2

    10

    30

    30

    75

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    6.9

    5.3

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    22.4

    12

    12.8

    6

    9.6

    6

    70.7

    82.7

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    13

    21.7

    13.3

    20.8

    10.2

    17.7

    16.9

    14.2

    17.3

    8.3

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    cosl

    lcos

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    4.3

    5.2
    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

    Bw1

    Bw2

    10

    30

    30

    75

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    4.2

    4.7

    10.9

    11.3

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    13.5

    9.6

    29.9

    17.4
    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 %

    Bw1

    Bw2

    10

    30

    30

    75

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    4.5

    2

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

    CAFI

    PIAL

    Carex filifolia

    Pinus albicaulis

    threadleaf sedge

    whitebark pine

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    104 -

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

    umbric epipedon

    redox concentrations

    0—90

    75—104

    —90—

    —28—
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    8/5/2015

    50

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    6.67
    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

    10

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    3656

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    250

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); black (7.5YR 2.5/1), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; mucky sandy loam; 63 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; many (9.0) very fine roots throughout; many (8.0) very fine irregular pores; 8 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter granitoid fragments observed by visual inspection method; NaF pH, by hcl, 1n, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N00940; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; 84 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 1 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (4.0) very fine roots throughout; many (6.0) very fine irregular pores; 38 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter granitoid fragments observed by visual inspection method; NaF pH, by hcl, 1n, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N00941; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—30 to 75 centimeters (11.8 to 29.5 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; very gravelly loamy coarse sand; 84 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 1 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (4.0) very fine roots throughout; many (5.0) very fine irregular pores; 45 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter granitoid fragments observed by visual inspection method; NaF pH, by hcl, 1n, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N00942; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—75 to 90 centimeters (29.5 to 35.4 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very gravelly loamy coarse sand; 83 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 1 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately few (0.5) very fine roots throughout; many (5.0) very fine irregular pores; 1 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 45 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter granitoid fragments observed by visual inspection method; NaF pH, by hcl, 1n, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw4—90 to 104 centimeters (35.4 to 40.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry; gravelly loamy sand; 75 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 3 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; very few (0.1) very fine roots throughout; common (2.0) very fine irregular pores; 7 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-39-75 millimeter granitoid fragments observed by visual inspection method; NaF pH; very abrupt smooth boundary.; wet, satiated when described; observed in pit, small
    2R—104 centimeters (40.9 inches); bedrock; fragments; NaF pH.; observed in pit, small