IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vista
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008CASJER-001
  • User Pedon ID: S08CASJER-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD08JER001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43067
  • Print Date: 5/8/2024

    • 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: 37.0976028
  • Std. Longitude: -119.7460556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • 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-A6—Millerton Lake West, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DB,WK,AS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Haploxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vista
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Haploxerepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 85 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/21/2008
  • Classifier - Dylan Beaudette
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: SAP
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: rare ponding
  • Bedrock: granite at 85cm
  • Geology: Mesozoic Granitic Rocs (grmz) formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/21/2008 (entry creation date)
  • Microrelief Kind: microlow
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    85 - 105

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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

    13

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    200

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD00799; observed in pit, small
    A—2 to 9 centimeters (0.8 to 3.5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loamy coarse sand; 80 percent sand; 5 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00800; observed in pit, small
    AB—9 to 56 centimeters (3.5 to 22.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly loamy coarse sand; 80 percent sand; 5 percent clay; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00801; observed in pit, small
    Bt—56 to 85 centimeters (22.0 to 33.5 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist; gravelly loamy coarse sand; 80 percent sand; 7 percent clay; massive; slightly sticky, nonplastic; 15 percent faint clay films and 15 percent faint clay bridges; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00802; observed in pit, small
    Crt—85 to 105 centimeters (33.5 to 41.3 inches); bedrock; 25 percent faint clay films; fragments. Lab sample # UCD00803; observed in pit, small