IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Copperopolis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973-CA-05-064x
  • User Pedon ID: 73-CA-05-064x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7305064
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42269
  • 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: 38.2520979
  • Std. Longitude: -120.6602800
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: Center of SE/4
  • Map Unit: 8175—Copperopolis-Hetchy complex, 8 to 30 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-C6—Mokelumne Hill, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: COS, SRP, BFS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, acid, thermic Lithic Xerorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Copperopolis
  • PSC - 5 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - ETSEL
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, acid, thermic Lithic Xerorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 2/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Bedrock: schist, unspecified
  • Geology: Calaveras Schist (silicic) formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/27/2009 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—28

    —28—
    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

    32

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    —

    561

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    180

    711

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    16.7

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD01818
    Oe—2 to 5 centimeters (0.8 to 2.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD01819
    A—5 to 28 centimeters (2.0 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; very stony loam; single grain; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 250-425-600 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 13 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-163-250 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01820
    R—28 to 200 centimeters (11.0 to 78.7 inches); hard; fragments. Lab sample # UCD01821