IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wallyhill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010CA109004
  • User Pedon ID: 09BJM030
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 09CA630BJM030
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0899
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28320
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 37.8105556
  • Std. Longitude: -120.2308333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 01S
  • Range: 16E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: About 2423 ft. S and 380 ft. east of the NW corner
  • Map Unit: 8160—Nedsgulch-Sites complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: California
  • County: CA109—Tuolumne
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Regional Office: SW—Southwest
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA630—Central Sierra Foothills Area, California, Parts of Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37120-G2—Groveland, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ben Marshall
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wallyhill
  • PSC - 17 to 67 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/23/2015
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Jackgulch
  • Classificaton Date - 3/20/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from phyllite
  • Landscape: Sierra Nevada mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent phyllite at 75cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Sullivan Terranes formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2- to 76-millimeter phyllite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/20/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Plant Association Name: sierra mixed conifersSMC4
  • 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
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    GALIU

    PILA

    PIPO

    QUKE

    QUWI2

    TODI

    Galium

    Pinus lambertiana

    Pinus ponderosa

    Quercus kelloggii

    Quercus wislizeni

    Toxicodendron diversilobum

    bedstraw

    sugar pine

    ponderosa pine

    California black oak

    interior live oak

    Pacific poison oak

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    moderately coherent

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    75 - 94

    94 -

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

    umbric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic materials

    lithic contact

    5—40

    17—75

    75—94

    94—

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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

    30

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    972

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    5

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—5 to 17 centimeters (2.0 to 6.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; channery loam; 39 percent sand; 51 percent silt; 10 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 medium irregular pores; 15 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-?-150 millimeter phyllite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N04404
    Bt1—17 to 40 centimeters (6.7 to 15.7 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; channery silt loam; 36 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 14 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 medium irregular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent mica flakes, unspecified in matrix; 30 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-?-150 millimeter phyllite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N04405
    Bt2—40 to 75 centimeters (15.7 to 29.5 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; channery clay loam; 30 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 31 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 medium tubular pores; faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent mica flakes, unspecified in matrix; 30 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-?-150 millimeter phyllite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N04406
    Cr—75 to 94 centimeters (29.5 to 37.0 inches); bedrock; 2 percent mica flakes, unspecified throughout; fragments.
    R—94 to 200 centimeters (37.0 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; 2 percent mica flakes, unspecified throughout; fragments.