IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Iron Mountain
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965-CA-05-003x
  • User Pedon ID: 65-CA-05-003x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6505003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42068
  • 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: 38.1687413
  • Std. Longitude: -120.4045638
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: NE/4, SW/4
  • Map Unit: 3033—Redapple-Lilygap complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes, low precipitation
  • State: California
  • County: CA009—Calaveras
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA630—Central Sierra Foothills Area, California, Parts of Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38120-B4—Murphys, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JAD, COS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Lithic Xerorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Iron Mountain
  • PSC - 0 to 23 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/2017
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - IRON MOUNTAIN
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial, mesic Lithic Xerorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 1/26/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: tuff, unspecified
  • Geology: Tuff Breccia 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, grassland
  • 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, lithic

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    23 - 200

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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

    23—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

    11

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    1012

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    315

    1016

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    12.8

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; fine sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03118
    A2—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; gravelly fine sandy loam; 62 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 14 percent clay; massive; very 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; 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-35-75 millimeter andesite fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # UCD03119
    R—23 to 200 centimeters (9.1 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.