IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sierra
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973-CA-05-066x
  • User Pedon ID: 73-CA-05-066x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1973-CA-05-066x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7305066
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42271
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 38.2871117
  • Std. Longitude: -120.6235365
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: S/2, SE/4, NW/4
  • Map Unit: 6078—Sierra-Flanly complex, 15 to 65 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-C5—Rail Road Flat, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: COS, BFS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sierra
  • PSC - 9 to 50 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/13/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - RESCUE
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Mollic Haploxeralfs
  • Classificaton Date - 2/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: gabbro
  • Geology: Gabbro. Geologic Formation: Me 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
    R018XI106CA Steep Thermic Hillslopes and Canyon Walls Jun 22 2016 Andrew Paolucci

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/27/2009 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CECU

    Ceanothus cuneatus

    buckbrush

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—9

    9—50

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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

    45

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    536

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    112

    762

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    5

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    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 56 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 8 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 roots throughout; 2.0 very fine irregular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00860
    BAt—9 to 24 centimeters (3.5 to 9.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 57 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 24 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 coarse roots throughout; 2.0 medium tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films between sand grains; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00861
    Bt—24 to 50 centimeters (9.4 to 19.7 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), 50 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) and 50 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; coarse sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 coarse roots throughout; 2.0 medium tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00862
    C1—50 to 77 centimeters (19.7 to 30.3 inches); 5YR 5/ (5YR 5/),, reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 13 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00863
    C2—77 to 108 centimeters (30.3 to 42.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 64 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 7 percent clay; massive; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 medium roots throughout and 0.1 coarse roots throughout; 0.1 medium tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9. Lab sample # UCD00864