IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Swissranch
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 09CA630BJM095
  • User Pedon ID: 09BJM095
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 09CA630BJM095
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0900
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28321
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.2854833
  • Std. Longitude: -120.4896778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 05 N
  • Range: 13 E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: about 2145 feet north and 2120 feet west of the southeast corner of
  • Location Description: about 4.1 miles southeast of the community of Railroad Flat, California
  • Map Unit: 5053—Fuches-Lithic Xerorthents complex, 15 to 50 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA009—Calaveras
  • MLRA: 18—Sierra Nevada Foothills
  • 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: 38120-C4—Fort Mountain, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ben Marshall
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, isotic, mesic Vitrandic Dystroxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Swissranch (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/12/2017
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Valley Springs
  • Classificaton Date - 8/13/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from tuff over residuum weathered from tuff
  • Landscape: Sierra Nevada foothills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent tuff, unspecified at 158cm with 45 to <100
  • Geology: Tuff member of the Valley Springs Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R022AI102CA Stony Shallow Volcanic Hillslopes May 17 2016 David Evans

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/13/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, densic

    moderately coherent

    weakly coherent

    158 - 158

    200 - 200

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—18

    15—122

    158—

    —18—

    —107—

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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

    55

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    800

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    320

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) broken face, dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face, moist; gravelly ashy fine sandy loam; 63 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 12 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 8.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium irregular pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter tuff, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N04407
    Bw1—15 to 48 centimeters (5.9 to 18.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, moist; ashy sandy clay loam; 59 percent sand; 18 percent silt; 23 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 8.0 medium roots throughout and 8.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N04408
    Bw2—48 to 85 centimeters (18.9 to 33.5 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, moist; sandy clay loam; 61 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 8.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N04409
    Bw3—85 to 122 centimeters (33.5 to 48.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; sandy clay loam; 65 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 very coarse roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular pores; 7 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N04410
    C—122 to 158 centimeters (48.0 to 62.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, moist; sandy loam; 68 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 15 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout; 10 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; 3 percent by volume nonflat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter tuff, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N04411
    Cr—158 to 200 centimeters (62.2 to 78.7 inches); variegated bedrock; 80 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 6 percent clay; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter. Lab sample # 10N04412