IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Luckymine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1967-CA-05-024x
  • User Pedon ID: 67-CA-05-024x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1967-CA-05-024x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6705024
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42135
  • Print Date: 4/3/2025

    • 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: 38.1951978
  • Std. Longitude: -120.7053010
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: SE/4, SE/4
  • Map Unit: 7211—Millvilla-Luckymine complex, 15 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: 38120-B6—San Andreas, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: COS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Lithic Haploxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Luckymine
  • PSC - 28 to 54 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2016
  • Classifier - Theresa Kunch
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - DORADO
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, thermic Lithic Xerochrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 1/21/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: shale, unspecified
  • Geology: Shales. Geologic Formation; Ma formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/21/2009 (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
    • 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

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—18

    12—50

    50—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

    13

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    290

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    248

    635

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    5

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # UCD03110
    A—2 to 12 centimeters (0.8 to 4.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; 1 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03111
    BA—12 to 40 centimeters (4.7 to 15.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine vesicular and 3.0 very fine irregular pores; 1 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 1 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03112
    Bw—40 to 50 centimeters (15.7 to 19.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine vesicular and 3.0 very fine irregular pores; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03113
    R—50 to 200 centimeters (19.7 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # UCD03114