IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bancas
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990CA109118
  • User Pedon ID: 90CA109118
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0736
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63775
  • 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: 37.8427773
  • Std. Longitude: -120.0147247
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 21
  • State: California
  • County: CA109—Tuolumne
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 118
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bancas
  • PSC - 6 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/23/2015
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bancas T
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1990
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    105 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—6

    6—105

    105—

    —6—

    —99—

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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

    4

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    1073

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    45

    109

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    O—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 91P04146. discontinuous sparse manzanita leaves
    AE—3 to 6 centimeters (1.2 to 2.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; coarse sandy loam; 71 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 9 percent clay; moderate fine platy structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04145. few very fine and fine roots; few medium and coarse roots
    Bt—6 to 64 centimeters (2.4 to 25.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 49 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 25 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 fine and medium interstitial and 2.5 coarse interstitial pores; 37 percent distinct dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04146. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few fine and medium roots; few coarse roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 1471673; continuous - phpvsfiid 1471673
    BCt—64 to 105 centimeters (25.2 to 41.3 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy loam; 53 percent sand; 27 percent silt; 19 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and massive; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 coarse tubular pores; 15 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04147. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1471674; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1471674
    Cr—105 to 155 centimeters (41.3 to 61.0 inches); bedrock; massive; iron stains; fragments; slight effervescence. diorite grus