IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chaix
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977-CA-55-037x
  • User Pedon ID: 77-CA-55-037x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7755037
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42344
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 37.9756039
  • Std. Longitude: -120.2190395
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: IN
  • Range: 16E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: NW/4, NE/4
  • Map Unit: 6029—Holland-Chawanakee-Rock outcrop complex, 45 to 90 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-H2—Tuolumne, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: BFS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Humixerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chaix
  • PSC - 25 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/12/2017
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - TRETTEN
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Xerochrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 3/2/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Bedrock: diorite
  • Geology: Flaser Quartz-diorite. Geologi 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 May 9 2017 David Evans

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—23

    23—58

    74—99

    —23—

    —35—

    —25—
    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

    69

    —

    —

    823

    —

    180

    1041

    —

    —

    -17.8

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    —

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; coarse sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 8 percent clay; strong fine granular parts to strong very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD01313
    AB—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; coarse sandy loam; 69 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 7 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01314
    Bw1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; 67 percent sand; 24 percent silt; 9 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01315
    Bw2—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 22 percent silt; 14 percent clay; massive; hard, firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01316
    C—58 to 74 centimeters (22.8 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; 73 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 7 percent clay; massive; slightly hard; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 0.1 medium tubular and 0.1 coarse tubular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD01317
    Cr—74 to 99 centimeters (29.1 to 39.0 inches); hard; fragments. Lab sample # UCD01318