IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Typic Dystroxerepts
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973-CA-05-068x
  • User Pedon ID: 73-CA-05-068x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7305068
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42273
  • 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: 38.2753096
  • Std. Longitude: -120.6718080
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: SE/4, NW/4, NE/4
  • Map Unit: 8173—Nedsgulch-Wallyhill-Arpatutu complex, 30 to 60 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, RDR, BFS, WRP
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Dystroxerepts
  • 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 - Typic Dystroxerepts
  • PSC - 28 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/15/2015
  • Classifier - Cathy Scott
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - FIDDLETOWN
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Xerochrepts
  • 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: schist, unspecified
  • Geology: Sedimentary Schist 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

    cambic horizon

    0—18

    44—97

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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

    66

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    —

    390

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    68

    711

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    13.3

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD01808
    A—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; gravelly loam; 45 percent sand; 42 percent silt; moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 roots throughout; 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 fine irregular and 21.0 fine tubular and 21.0 tubular and 21.0 irregular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01809
    AB—13 to 44 centimeters (5.1 to 17.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; gravelly loam; 49 percent sand; 37 percent silt; structureless fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 roots throughout; 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 fine irregular and 21.0 fine tubular and 21.0 tubular and 21.0 irregular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01810
    Bw—44 to 97 centimeters (17.3 to 38.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist; loam; 49 percent sand; 36 percent silt; massive; soft, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 21.0 coarse roots throughout and 21.0 roots throughout; 21.0 medium tubular and 21.0 tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01811
    C—97 to 166 centimeters (38.2 to 65.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly loam; 48 percent sand; 38 percent silt; massive; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 coarse roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5. Lab sample # UCD01812