IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Exchequer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977-CA-55-041x
  • User Pedon ID: 77-CA-55-041x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7755041
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42348
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 37.7696940
  • Std. Longitude: -120.4431410
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: SW/4, SW/4
  • Map Unit: 7085—Bonanza-Loafercreek complex, 3 to 15 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-G4—Chinese Camp, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: WRP, BFS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, nonacid, thermic Lithic Xerorthents
  • 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 - Exchequer
  • 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 - EXCHEQUER
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, nonacid, thermic Lithic Xerorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 3/2/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: metavolcanics
  • Geology: Greenschist. Geologic Formatio formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    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
    • 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

    ochric epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—23

    23—

    —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

    10

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    347

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    225

    559

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    17.2

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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots throughout and 21.0 roots throughout; 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD04425
    R—23 to 23 centimeters (9.1 to 9.1 inches); fragments broken boundary. Lab sample # UCD04426