IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wallyhill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975-CA-55-025x
  • User Pedon ID: 75-CA-55-025x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1975-CA-55-025x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7555025
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42319
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 37.8532885
  • Std. Longitude: -120.1685886
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 16E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: NE/4, SW/4
  • Map Unit: 8171—Nedsgulch-Wallyhill complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA109—Tuolumne
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA630—Central Sierra Foothills Area, California, Parts of Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37120-G2—Groveland, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: WRA, BFS, WRP
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • 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 - Wallyhill
  • PSC - 58 to 89 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/4/2015
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - COARSEGOLD
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, thermic Typic Xerumbrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 2/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: schist, unspecified
  • Geology: Calaveras Schist. Geologic For 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    QUWI2

    Quercus wislizeni

    interior live oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    89 -

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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—25

    25—58

    58—89

    89—

    —25—

    —33—

    —31—

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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

    21

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    899

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    180

    965

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    5

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak coarse granular parts to weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD02199
    A2—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD02200
    BA—25 to 58 centimeters (9.8 to 22.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 21.0 medium tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD02201
    Bt1—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 medium tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on top faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9. Lab sample # UCD02202
    Bt2—76 to 89 centimeters (29.9 to 35.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium irregular and 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular and 0.5 fine irregular pores; 30 percent clay films on top faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0. Lab sample # UCD02203
    Cr—89 to 89 centimeters (35.0 to 35.0 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # UCD02204