IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fiddletown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1967-CA-05-042x
  • User Pedon ID: 67-CA-05-042x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1967-CA-05-042x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6705042
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42153
  • 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: 38.4621950
  • Std. Longitude: -120.4413801
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: SW/4, NW/4
  • 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, JAD
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Humic Dystroxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fiddletown
  • PSC - 28 to 97 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MADONNA
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Dystric Xerochrepts
  • 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: excessively
  • Bedrock: schist, unspecified
  • Geology: Talc Schist (low Grade). Geolo 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

    PSEUD7

    Pseudotsuga

    Douglas-fir

    —

    —

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—18

    25—76

    97—200

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    78

    —

    —

    878

    —

    0

    1092

    —

    —

    10

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD01650
    A1—3 to 11 centimeters (1.2 to 4.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; gravelly loam; moderate medium granular parts to moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01651
    A2—11 to 26 centimeters (4.3 to 10.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; gravelly loam; moderate coarse granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01652
    Bt—26 to 77 centimeters (10.2 to 30.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 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 very fine tubular and 21.0 fine tubular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; 30 percent clay films between sand grains; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD01653
    C—77 to 97 centimeters (30.3 to 38.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; 0.1 medium roots throughout and 0.1 coarse roots throughout; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD01654
    R—97 to 200 centimeters (38.2 to 78.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) bedrock; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5. Lab sample # UCD01655