IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Copperopolis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973-CA-55-014x
  • User Pedon ID: 73-CA-55-014x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7355014
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42294
  • 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: 38.0020791
  • Std. Longitude: -120.4317353
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: SW/4, NW/4
  • Map Unit: 7211—Millvilla-Luckymine complex, 15 to 30 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: 38120-A4—Columbia, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: COS, BFS, LKS, RMD
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Lithic Haploxerepts
  • 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 - Copperopolis
  • PSC - 0 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/4/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - DAULTON
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, thermic Lithic Haploxerepts
  • 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: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: schist, unspecified
  • Geology: Graphite Schist. Geologic Form 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

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    36 -

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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

    10—36

    36—200

    —18—

    —26—

    —164—
    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

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    549

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    315

    1524

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very gravelly loam; 10 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 roots throughout; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01840
    A2—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; very gravelly loam; 10 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 irregular pores; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01841
    BA—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; gravelly loam; massive; hard, firm, nonsticky; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01842
    R—36 to 200 centimeters (14.2 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # UCD01843