IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Copperopolis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976-CA-55-032x
  • User Pedon ID: 76-CA-55-032x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7655032
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42333
  • 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: 37.9751690
  • Std. Longitude: -120.4024120
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: NW/4, NE/4
  • Map Unit: 8175—Copperopolis-Hetchy complex, 8 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: 37120-H4—Sonora, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: COS, BFS, WLC, RJM
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, acid, thermic Lithic Xerorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Copperopolis
  • PSC - 0 to 15 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/2016
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - HIDEAWAY
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, acid, thermic Lithic Xerorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 3/2/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 4
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sericite schist
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Bedrock: schist, unspecified
  • Geology: Serecite Schist formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F018XI202CA Deep Thermic Steep Hillslopes Apr 28 2016 Andrew Paolucci

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/2/2009 (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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    15 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—15

    15—200

    —15—

    —185—
    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

    53

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    655

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    135

    787

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    16.7

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 21.0 roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 irregular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01215
    C—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; very stony loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine irregular and 0.5 fine irregular pores; 35 percent by volume indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; extremely acid, pH 4.1; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD01216
    R—15 to 200 centimeters (5.9 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; hard; fragments. Lab sample # UCD01217