IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Whiterock
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1966-CA-05-006x
  • User Pedon ID: 66-CA-05-006x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6605006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42091
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024
  • 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: 37.8982740
  • Std. Longitude: -120.5825566
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: SE/4, NE/4
  • Map Unit: 9018—Urban land-Copperopolis-Whiterock complex, 8 to 30 percent slopes
  • 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: 37120-H5—New Melones Dam, California
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: COS, DD, FT
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Lithic Haploxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Whiterock
  • PSC - 0 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/26/2016
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MAYMEN
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, thermic Lithic Xerochrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 1/23/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Bedrock: shale, unspecified
  • Geology: Phyllite-slate. Geologic Forma formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/23/2009 (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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—18

    5—30

    30—200

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    20

    158

    180

    584

    5

    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; sandy clay loam; strong fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03120
    Bt—5 to 30 centimeters (2.0 to 11.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; sandy clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03121
    R—30 to 200 centimeters (11.8 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.