IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ultic Haploxerolls
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: very deep
  • User Site ID: S1967-CA-05-029x
  • User Pedon ID: 67-CA-05-029x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1967-CA-05-029x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6705029
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42140
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 38.3697269
  • Std. Longitude: -120.5488522
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: SW/4, SE/4
  • Map Unit: 6029—Holland-Chawanakee-Rock outcrop complex, 45 to 90 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-C5—Rail Road Flat, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JAD
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, active, mesic Ultic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ultic Haploxerolls
  • PSC - 30 to 105 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2017
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - CROUCH
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Ultic Haploxerolls
  • Classificaton Date - 1/21/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from granitoid
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Bedrock: granite
  • Geology: Hornblende Biotite Granite. Ge formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F022AI202CA Mesic Lower Montane Cool Drainages 40 - 47 PZ May 4 2017 Dave Evans

    • 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

    QUKE

    Quercus kelloggii

    California black oak

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    5—23

    23—168

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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

    55

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    640

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    225

    889

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    14.4

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD03071
    Oe—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD03072
    A—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; coarse sandy loam; 69 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 12 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; soft, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03073
    Bw1—23 to 69 centimeters (9.1 to 27.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; coarse sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03074
    Bw2—69 to 168 centimeters (27.2 to 66.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist; coarse sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 14 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # UCD03075
    C—168 to 198 centimeters (66.1 to 78.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; coarse sandy loam; 73 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 11 percent clay; massive; soft, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4. Lab sample # UCD03076