IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Delpiedra
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973-CA-55-013x
  • User Pedon ID: 73-CA-55-013x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7355013
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42293
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 37.8754634
  • Std. Longitude: -120.4694986
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: SE/4, SE/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: COS, BFS, RMD, LKS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, magnesic, thermic Lithic Haploxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Delpiedra
  • PSC - 0 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/18/2015
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - DELPIEDRA
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, serpentinitic, thermic Lithic 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
  • Drainage Class: moderately 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 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    36 - 200

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—18

    8—36

    36—200

    —18—

    —28—

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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

    6

    —

    —

    390

    —

    225

    635

    —

    —

    5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist; loam; 34 percent sand; 22 percent clay; structureless fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 tubular pores; 10 percent clay films; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD04009
    Bt—8 to 36 centimeters (3.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; loam; 33 percent sand; 24 percent clay; structureless medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 roots throughout; 21.0 very 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; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD04010
    R—36 to 36 centimeters (14.2 to 14.2 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # UCD04011