IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Copperopolis
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976-CA-55-033x
  • User Pedon ID: 76-CA-55-033x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1976-CA-55-033x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7655033
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42334
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 37.8214588
  • Std. Longitude: -120.2866100
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 15E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: SW/4, NE/4
  • Map Unit: 8177—Moccasinhill-Copperopolis-Sanguinetti complex, 30 to 60 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-G3—Moccasin, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: BFS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, 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 33 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 - GOULDING
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, thermic Lithic Xerochrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 3/2/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Bedrock: metavolcanics
  • Geology: Greenschist. Geologic Formatio 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
    R018XI106CA Steep Thermic Hillslopes and Canyon Walls 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, grassland
  • 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

    ADFA

    Adenostoma fasciculatum

    chamise

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    33 -

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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—33

    33—200

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    —23—

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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

    57

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    488

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    180

    762

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    17.2

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; stony loam; 37 percent sand; 14 percent clay; moderate medium granular parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 roots throughout; 21.0 medium irregular and 21.0 medium tubular and 21.0 fine tubular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; 15 percent by volume flat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; neutral, pH 6.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD04419
    Bw—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; very stony silt loam; 36 percent sand; 11 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 medium tubular pores; 35 percent by volume flat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD04420
    R—33 to 200 centimeters (13.0 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # UCD04421