IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Redapple
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1967-CA-05-039x
  • User Pedon ID: 67-CA-05-039x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1967-CA-05-039x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6705039
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42150
  • 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: 38.4442361
  • Std. Longitude: -120.4199768
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: NE/4, SW/4
  • Map Unit: 4048—Devilsnose-Lilygap 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: JAD, COS, RHB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Ultic Palexeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Redapple
  • PSC - 59 to 109 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/20/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - COHASSET
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Classificaton Date - 1/14/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Tuff Breccia. Geologic Formati formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/14/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • 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

    umbric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    8—59

    59—135

    —51—

    —76—
    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

    39

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    1317

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    180

    1118

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    12.8

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    Oi—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD01077
    A—8 to 36 centimeters (3.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; sandy clay loam; 59 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 22 percent clay; moderate coarse granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 coarse roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01078
    AB—36 to 59 centimeters (14.2 to 23.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; sandy clay loam; 52 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 coarse roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01079
    Bt1—59 to 82 centimeters (23.2 to 32.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist; sandy clay loam; 46 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 medium irregular and 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, pH meter; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # UCD01080
    Bt2—82 to 135 centimeters (32.3 to 53.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; 40 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 40 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 medium irregular and 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 75 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 75 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, pH meter. Lab sample # UCD01081
    BCt—135 to 185 centimeters (53.1 to 72.8 inches); clay; 37 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 42 percent clay; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter. Lab sample # UCD01082