IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wallyhill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1966-CA-05-009x
  • User Pedon ID: 66-CA-05-009x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6605009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42094
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 38.1655086
  • Std. Longitude: -120.4340032
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: T.14E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: SW/4, SE/4
  • Map Unit: 8172—Nedsgulch-Wallyhill-Arpatutu complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes
  • 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, DD, FT
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Humixerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wallyhill
  • PSC - 28 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/3/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - OVALL
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Xerumbrepts
  • 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: well
  • Bedrock: slate
  • Geology: Blake Slate. Geologic Formatio 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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    3—36

    36—53

    84—109

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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

    31

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    869

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    135

    1016

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    —

    13.3

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD02770
    A—3 to 18 centimeters (1.2 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; gravelly loam; moderate medium granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium irregular and 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD02771
    BA—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak medium granular parts to weak very fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 medium irregular and 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine irregular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD02772
    Bw—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 0.5 medium irregular and 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular and 0.5 fine irregular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD02773
    C—53 to 84 centimeters (20.9 to 33.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; massive; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.1 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout and 0.1 coarse roots throughout; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # UCD02774
    Cr—84 to 109 centimeters (33.1 to 42.9 inches); fragments.