IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nedsgulch
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1967-CA-05-033x
  • User Pedon ID: 67-CA-05-033x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1967-CA-05-033x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6705033
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42144
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.3615011
  • Std. Longitude: -120.5962128
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: SW/4, NW/4
  • Map Unit: 8162—Nedsgulch-Arpatutu 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-C5—Rail Road Flat, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JAD
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Xeric Palehumults
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Nedsgulch
  • PSC - 51 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/16/2015
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - JOSEPHINE
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Xeric Palehumults
  • 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
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/21/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • 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

    PIPO

    Pinus ponderosa

    ponderosa pine

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—51

    23—51

    51—155

    211—211

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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

    33

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    838

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    22

    864

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    13.3

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD00075
    A1—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; 50 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 21 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD00076
    A2—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 coarse roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD00077
    BAt—23 to 51 centimeters (9.1 to 20.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; sandy clay loam; 49 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent clay films on surfaces along pores and 10 percent clay films between sand grains; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD00078
    Bt1—51 to 104 centimeters (20.1 to 40.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), dry; clay loam; 43 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 75 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 75 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00079
    Bt2—104 to 155 centimeters (40.9 to 61.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), 5YR 4/ (5YR 4/),, dry; gravelly clay; 36 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 42 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 75 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 75 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00080
    C—155 to 211 centimeters (61.0 to 83.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dry; gravelly clay; 33 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 40 percent clay; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6. Lab sample # UCD00081
    R—211 to 211 centimeters (83.1 to 83.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD00082