IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Whiterock
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974-CA-05-77x
  • User Pedon ID: 74-CA-05-077x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD740577
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42297
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 38.0632350
  • Std. Longitude: -120.5966540
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: SE/4, SE/4
  • Map Unit: 8034—Copperopolis-Whiterock complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes, rocky
  • 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: 38120-A5—Angels Camp, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: BFS, COS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, thermic, shallow Typic Xerorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Whiterock
  • PSC - 0 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/26/2016
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - MILLSHOLM
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, 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: well
  • Bedrock: shale, unspecified
  • Geology: Shales. Geologic Formation: Ma 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    paralithic contact

    0—18

    28—53

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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

    3

    —

    —

    411

    —

    0

    762

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    —

    5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/3), brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry; loam; massive; hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 roots throughout; 3.0 irregular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual boundary. Lab sample # UCD03893
    Bw—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), 7.5YR 6/ (7.5YR 6/),, dry; clay loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD03894
    Cr—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD03895