IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bottlehill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1967-CA-05-031x
  • User Pedon ID: 67-CA-05-031x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1967-CA-05-031x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6705031
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42142
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 38.3813788
  • Std. Longitude: -120.4195215
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: SW/4, SE/4
  • Map Unit: 8287—Jocal-Fiddletown complex, 30 to 60 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-D4—Devils Nose, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: COS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bottlehill
  • PSC - 53 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MARPA
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, mixed, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • 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: Sediments And Shales. Geologic 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

    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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—38

    38—102

    102—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

    42

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    3640

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    0

    1118

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    11.1

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    A1—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; gravelly loam; 36 percent sand; 19 percent clay; strong fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 roots throughout; 21.0 fine irregular and 21.0 irregular pores; , 30 percent by weight indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03099
    A2—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; gravelly loam; 38 percent sand; 21 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine vesicular and 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine vesicular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; , 19 percent by weight indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03100
    Bt1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/3), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly loam; 38 percent sand; 23 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 coarse roots throughout; 21.0 very fine vesicular and 21.0 very fine irregular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; , 22 percent by weight indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03101
    Bt2—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; gravelly loam; 37 percent sand; 25 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 21.0 very fine vesicular and 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 fine vesicular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; , 35 percent by weight indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD03102
    Bt3—53 to 102 centimeters (20.9 to 40.2 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly clay; 34 percent sand; 40 percent clay; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine vesicular and 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 fine vesicular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; 75 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; , 62 percent by weight indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD03103
    R—102 to 200 centimeters (40.2 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # UCD03104