IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Iron Mountain
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965-CA-05-004x
  • User Pedon ID: 65-CA-05-004x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1965-CA-05-004x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6505004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42069
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 38.2915040
  • Std. Longitude: -120.3512290
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 15E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: NW/4, NW/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA009—Calaveras
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA731—Stanislaus National Forest, California, Parts
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38120-C3—Dorrington, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JAD, COS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Ultic Haploxerolls
  • 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 - Iron Mountain
  • PSC - 5 to 18 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/27/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - IRON MOUNTAIN
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, mesic Lithic Haploxerolls
  • Classificaton Date - 1/26/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

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

    CEANO

    Ceanothus

    ceanothus

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    5—18

    18—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

    15

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    1353

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    270

    1245

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    11.7

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    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD00176
    A—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly fine sandy loam; weak coarse granular parts to massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and 3.0 fine pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD00177
    R—18 to 200 centimeters (7.1 to 78.7 inches); hard; fragments. Lab sample # UCD00178