IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Melody
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99CA693-042
  • User Pedon ID: S99CA061007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0360
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11874
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 39.0798528
  • Std. Longitude: -120.2329444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 16E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 1400 feet west and 890 feet south
  • Location Description: On the East slope of Barker Peak.
  • Map Unit: 9142—Melody-Rock Outcrop complex, 30 to 50 percent slopes
  • County: CA061—Placer
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Regional Office: SW—Southwest
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39120-A2—Homewood, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: FFF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy-skeletal, mixed Lithic Vitricryands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 42
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Melody (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 3 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/14/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Classificaton Date - 7/21/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from volcanic rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/21/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 5
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • 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

    43

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    2271

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    25

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; platy structure; fragments. Not sampled.
    A—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; very cobbly sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 7 percent clay; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 14 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P02502. Water State: DS; NaF: 10.0; Hydrophobicity: >10 s.
    AC—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; very cobbly sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 6 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 12 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P02503. Water State: MS; NaF: 10.5; Hydrophobicity: >10 s.
    C—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), dry; very cobbly sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 6 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; very friable; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 13 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 00P02504. Water State: MS; NaF: 10.5; Hydrophobicity: 1 sec.
    R—38 centimeters (15.0 inches); fragments. Not sampled.