IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sixbit
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977-CA-55-043x
  • User Pedon ID: 77-CA-55-043x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1977-CA-55-043x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD7755043
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42350
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 37.8654494
  • Std. Longitude: -120.4816612
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: NE/4, SE/4
  • Map Unit: 7155—Crimeahouse-Sixbit 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
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, magnesic, thermic Lithic Rhodoxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sixbit
  • PSC - 15 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/26/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - DELPIEDRA
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, oxidic, thermic Lithic Rhodoxeralfs
  • Classificaton Date - 3/2/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: ultramafic, unspecified
  • Geology: Serpentine. Geologic Formation 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CEANO

    Ceanothus

    ceanothus

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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

    15

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    335

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    180

    610

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    17.2

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); 2.5YR 4/ (2.5YR 4/),, dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/3), moist; stony loam; moderate medium granular parts to moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 roots throughout; 21.0 medium tubular and 21.0 medium irregular and 21.0 fine irregular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD03999
    Bt—15 to 41 centimeters (5.9 to 16.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), moist; stony clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 75 percent clay films on top faces of peds; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD04000
    R—41 to 41 centimeters (16.1 to 16.1 inches); bedrock; hard; fragments. Lab sample # UCD04001