IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wukusick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973-CA-05-067x
  • User Pedon ID: 73-CA-05-067x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1973-CA-05-067x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7305067
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42272
  • 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: 38.2654287
  • Std. Longitude: -120.5073071
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: S/2, SW/4, SE/4
  • Map Unit: 6206—Musick-Hotaw 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-C5—Rail Road Flat, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: COS, WRP, BFS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, subactive, mesic Ultic Palexeralfs
  • 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 - Wukusick
  • PSC - 39 to 89 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/16/2017
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - DAKEN
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Ultic Palexeralfs
  • Classificaton Date - 2/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: gabbro
  • Geology: Deeply Weathered Gabbro. Geolo 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, 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

    QUKE

    Quercus kelloggii

    California black oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—39

    39—143

    206—231

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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

    15

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    710

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    45

    889

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    11.7

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # UCD03826
    A—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 medium tubular and 21.0 fine irregular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03827
    BAt—13 to 39 centimeters (5.1 to 15.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; strong medium granular structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 coarse roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 medium irregular and 21.0 medium tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD03828
    Bt1—39 to 112 centimeters (15.4 to 44.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6), dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; 0.1 fine tubular pores; 75 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 75 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; gradual boundary. Lab sample # UCD03829
    Bt2—112 to 143 centimeters (44.1 to 56.3 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; clay; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 medium roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; gradual boundary. Lab sample # UCD03830
    C—143 to 206 centimeters (56.3 to 81.1 inches); clay; 0.1 medium roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear boundary. Lab sample # UCD03831
    Cr—206 to 231 centimeters (81.1 to 90.9 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # UCD03832