IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Amador
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1971-CA-05-060x
  • User Pedon ID: 71-CA-05-060x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1971-CA-05-060x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7105060
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42223
  • 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: 38.1909560
  • Std. Longitude: -120.8510660
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: NW/4, NW/4
  • Map Unit: 5013—Miltonhills-Amador complex, 15 to 45 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA009—Calaveras
  • 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: 38120-B7—Valley Springs, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JAD
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Typic Haploxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Amador
  • PSC - 0 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/23/2015
  • Classifier - Theresa Kunch
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - PENTZ
  • Taxonomic Class - Medial, thermic Typic Vitrandepts
  • Classificaton Date - 2/25/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified
  • Geology: Volcanic Sandstone. Geologic F formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/25/2009 (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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—18

    10—33

    33—58

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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

    28

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    229

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    180

    533

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    5

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; sandy clay loam; 54 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 25 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 7 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-20-75 millimeter tuff, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03791
    Bw—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 58 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 23 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD03792
    Cr—33 to 150 centimeters (13.0 to 59.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), moist; bedrock; massive; very hard, firm, moderately coherent; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # UCD03793