IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sixbit
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973-CA-55-012x
  • User Pedon ID: 73-CA-55-012x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7355012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42292
  • 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: 37.8611576
  • Std. Longitude: -120.4672463
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: SW/4, NW/4
  • Map Unit: 7155—Crimeahouse-Sixbit complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA109—Tuolumne
  • 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-G4—Chinese Camp, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: BHW
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, 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 - 0 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/26/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - DELPIEDRA
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, serpentinitic, thermic Mollic Haploxeralfs
  • 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
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: ultramafic, unspecified
  • Geology: Serpentine 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 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • 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

    30 - 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—10

    10—30

    30—200

    —10—

    —20—

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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

    8

    —

    —

    354

    —

    180

    635

    —

    —

    16.7

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    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; silt loam; 29 percent sand; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00790
    Bt—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; gravelly clay loam; 28 percent sand; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD00791
    R—30 to 30 centimeters (11.8 to 11.8 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # UCD00792