IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sixbit
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973-CA-05-073x
  • User Pedon ID: 73-CA-05-073x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7305073
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42278
  • 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: 37.9534987
  • Std. Longitude: -120.5601434
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: N/2, NE/4, NW/4, SW/4
  • Map Unit: 7155—Crimeahouse-Sixbit complex, 3 to 15 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: 37120-H5—New Melones Dam, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: COS, BFS, RMD, LKS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, magnesic, thermic Lithic Mollic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sixbit
  • PSC - 18 to 25 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/2018
  • Classifier - Cathy Scott
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - DELPIEDRA
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, serpentinitic, thermic Lithic Mollic Haploxeralfs
  • 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
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: ultramafic, unspecified
  • Geology: Serpentine. Geologic Formation 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    25 - 200

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—17

    17—25

    25—200

    —17—

    —8—

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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

    12

    —

    —

    341

    —

    225

    610

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    17.2

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; gravelly silt loam; moderate coarse granular parts to massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 roots throughout; 21.0 fine tubular and 21.0 tubular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01097
    BA—8 to 17 centimeters (3.1 to 6.7 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; stony loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 roots throughout; 21.0 fine tubular and 21.0 tubular pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01098
    Bt—17 to 25 centimeters (6.7 to 9.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; very stony loam; massive; hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 roots throughout; 21.0 fine tubular and 21.0 tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; 35 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01099
    R—25 to 200 centimeters (9.8 to 78.7 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD01100