IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1967-CA-55-003x
  • User Pedon ID: 67-CA-55-003x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1967-CA-55-003x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6755003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42158
  • Print Date: 10/31/2024

    • 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: 37.8882168
  • Std. Longitude: -120.5802920
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: SE/4, SE/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, LEN
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • PSC - 43 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/17/2015
  • Classifier - Theresa Kunch
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - STOVER
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic 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: moderately well
  • Bedrock: slight weathered latite
  • Geology: Table Mountain 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, 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

    QUDO

    Quercus douglasii

    blue oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

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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—18

    20—43

    43—79

    79—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

    23

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    338

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    90

    1524

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; loam; 28 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 27 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD02998
    Bw—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; 27 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 30 percent clay; massive parts to weak medium subangular blocky; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots top of horizon; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine irregular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD02999
    Bt—43 to 79 centimeters (16.9 to 31.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; 27 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 33 percent clay; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1. Lab sample # UCD03000
    R—79 to 104 centimeters (31.1 to 40.9 inches); fragments broken boundary. Lab sample # UCD03001