IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chaix
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990CA109119
  • User Pedon ID: 90CA109119
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0737
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63776
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 37.8600006
  • Std. Longitude: -119.9333344
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 11
  • Location Description: Right on 1S26, left on spur 0.7 mile from 1N07 to landing at end of spur, follow tra
  • State: California
  • County: CA109—Tuolumne
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Dystric Xerorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 119
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chaix
  • PSC - 25 to 97 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/27/2017
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chaix
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Dystric Xerochrept
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • 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 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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, lithic

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    100 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—18

    26—87

    100—

    —18—

    —61—

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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

    65

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    1244

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    45

    109

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    O—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments. fresh and decomposing pine and PSME needles and twigs
    A—3 to 26 centimeters (1.2 to 10.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), black (10YR 2/1), moist; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; 66 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 9 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 2.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04148. few medium roots; common fine roots
    Bw—26 to 87 centimeters (10.2 to 34.3 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist; loamy coarse sand; 75 percent sand; 21 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium and coarse roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04149. common medium and coarse roots; many very fine and fine roots
    C—87 to 100 centimeters (34.3 to 39.4 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; coarse sandy loam; 69 percent sand; 25 percent silt; 6 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium and coarse roots and 2.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; strongly acid, pH 5.4, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 91P04150. few medium and coarse roots; common fine roots
    R—100 to 125 centimeters (39.4 to 49.2 inches); bedrock; 0.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; slight effervescence. hard fractured diorite with grus in interstices; few fine and medium roots