IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Whiterock
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965-CA-05-002x
  • User Pedon ID: 65-CA-05-002x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1965-CA-05-002x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6505002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42067
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 38.0621546
  • Std. Longitude: -120.7428919
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: SE/4
  • Map Unit: 8034—Copperopolis-Whiterock complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes, rocky
  • State: California
  • County: CA009—Calaveras
  • MLRA: 18—Sierra Nevada Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA630—Central Sierra Foothills Area, California, Parts of Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38120-A6—Salt Spring Valley, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JAD, COS, LH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, thermic Lithic Xerorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Whiterock
  • PSC - 0 to 20 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/21/2016
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - WHITEROCK
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, nonacid, thermic Lithic Xerorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 1/26/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified
  • Geology: Meta-sandstone. Geologic Forma formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/26/2009 (entry creation date)
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUDO

    Quercus douglasii

    blue oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—18

    20—200

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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

    6

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    357

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    270

    635

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    5

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    A—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 very fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01866
    AC—2 to 20 centimeters (0.8 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; fine sandy loam; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # UCD01867
    R—20 to 200 centimeters (7.9 to 78.7 inches); sand; fragments. Lab sample # UCD01868