IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Priestgrade
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976-CA-55-035x
  • User Pedon ID: 76-CA-55-035x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1976-CA-55-035x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7655035
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42336
  • 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: 37.8185976
  • Std. Longitude: -120.2730960
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 15E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: NE/4, SE/4
  • Map Unit: 8178—Moccasinhill-Copperopolis complex, 60 to 90 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, mixed, superactive, thermic Lithic Ultic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Priestgrade
  • PSC - 0 to 13 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/18/2015
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - ETSEL
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, thermic Lithic Ultic Haploxerolls
  • 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: slate
  • Geology: Sedimentary Slate. Geologic Fo 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
    R018XI105CA Mesic Steep Convex Slopes bordering thermic 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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    13 -

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

    umbric epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—13

    13—200

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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

    67

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    747

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    180

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    16.7

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; stony loam; 42 percent sand; 15 percent clay; weak fine granular parts to weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03983
    R—13 to 200 centimeters (5.1 to 78.7 inches); hard; fragments. Lab sample # UCD03984