IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Friant
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2017CA039001
  • User Pedon ID: S2017CA039001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0815
  • User Project ID: 2017 SJER_017_NEON
  • Project Name: NEON - San Joaquin
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 37.1237720
  • Std. Longitude: -119.7509491
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 14.7;159;40x40 SW marker
  • Map Unit: AeD—Ahwahnee and Vista rocky coarse sandy loams, 8 to 30 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: California
  • County: CA039—Madera
  • MLRA: 18—Sierra Nevada Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA651—Madera Area, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37119-A7—Little Table Mountain, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Andrew Brown; Jennifer Wood
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Lithic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from granodiorite and/or residuum weathered from granodiorite
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight weathered granodiorite at 46cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2- to 75-millimeter granodiorite, 2.00 percent nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 250- to 600-millimeter granodiorite, 1.00 percent nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 75- to 250-millimeter granodiorite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • Plot #: 30
  • RaCA Information:
  • RaCA Site ID - SJER_030
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Andrew Brown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/13/2017 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Andrew Brown; Jennifer Wood
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    46 - 200

    - 154 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    1—46

    46—200

    —45—

    —154—
    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

    14

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    485

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    163

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; common (4.0) very fine roots throughout; fragments; very abrupt broken boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A1—1 to 5 centimeters (0.4 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) crushed, moist; sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 7 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular, and moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular, and moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular, and moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; common (2.0) very fine roots throughout; many (8.0) very fine irregular and common (1.0) fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-35-76 millimeter granitoid fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N04059; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) crushed, moist; parastony sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 9 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular, and moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular, and moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular, and moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; common (1.0) very fine roots throughout and common (1.0) medium roots throughout; many (5.0) very fine irregular and common (1.0) fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 76-140-250 millimeter granitoid fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-35-76 millimeter granitoid fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 250-425-600 millimeter granitoid fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH indicator solutions; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N04060; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    AB—13 to 46 centimeters (5.1 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/2) crushed, moist; very paracobbly loamy sand; 72 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 5 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (2.0) coarse roots top of horizon; common (3.0) very fine irregular and common (1.0) fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 2-35-76 millimeter granitoid fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 250-450-600 millimeter granitoid fragments observed by visual inspection method and 30 percent by volume nonflat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 76-175-250 millimeter granitoid fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH indicator solutions; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N04061, 17N04062; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    R—46 to 100 centimeters (18.1 to 39.4 inches); bedrock; strongly coherent; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; observed in pit, small