IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goldwall
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1967-CA-55-002x
  • User Pedon ID: 67-CA-55-002x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6755002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42157
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 37.9057477
  • Std. Longitude: -120.5222955
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: SW/4, SW/4
  • Map Unit: 3046—Goldwall-Toomes-Rock outcrop complex, 1 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA109—Tuolumne
  • MLRA: 18—Sierra Nevada Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA630—Central Sierra Foothills Area, California, Parts of Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37120-H5—New Melones Dam, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JAD, COS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Lithic Humixerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Goldwall
  • PSC - 0 to 13 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/3/2017
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - HIDEAWAY
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, acid, thermic Lithic Xerorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 1/14/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from latite
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: lava plateau
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: latite
  • Geology: Latite. Geologic Formation: Ta 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
    R018XI101CA Shallow Latite Ridgetops Jul 6 2016 Andrew Paolucci

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/14/2009 (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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    13 -

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

    umbric epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—13

    13—

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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

    3

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    396

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    270

    635

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    5

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly fine sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 10 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 15 percent by volume , 42 percent by weight nonflat subrounded indurated 2-35-75 millimeter latite fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.2; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01965
    R—13 to 13 centimeters (5.1 to 5.1 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # UCD01966