IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pardee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 11CA630DEB012
  • User Pedon ID: R11CA009003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 11CA630DEB012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7647
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55305
  • Print Date: 1/29/2025

    • 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: 38.2083333
  • Std. Longitude: -120.8033333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 7
  • Map Unit: 5201—Pardee cobbly loam, 2 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA009—Calaveras
  • 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: 38120-B7—Valley Springs, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dylan Beaudette
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, thermic, shallow Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pardee
  • PSC - 11 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/11/2012
  • Classifier - Dylan Beaudette
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - young gravels
  • Classificaton Date - 4/27/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/27/2011 (actual site observation 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
  • Current Weather - rain
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ALLIU

    AVFA

    BRHOH

    CECU

    TACA8

    TRIFO

    Allium

    Avena fatua

    Bromus hordeaceus ssp. hordeaceus

    Ceanothus cuneatus

    Taeniatherum caput-medusae

    Trifolium

    onion

    wild oat

    soft brome

    buckbrush

    medusahead

    clover

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    densic material

    noncoherent

    50 - 75

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    densic contact

    0—11

    11—50

    50—75

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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

    3

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    A1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 13 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; hard, very firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 2 percent fine masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along pores; 1 percent by volume rounded indurated 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume rounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A2—2 to 11 centimeters (0.8 to 4.3 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) cobbly sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 13 percent clay; hard, very firm, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 10 percent fine masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries on surfaces along pores and 15 percent medium iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume rounded indurated 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume rounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—11 to 29 centimeters (4.3 to 11.4 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) extremely cobbly sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 18 percent clay; very hard, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; high excavation difficulty; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine masses of oxidized iron on surfaces along pores and 20 percent fine iron depletions in matrix; 20 percent by volume rounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 45 percent by volume rounded indurated 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—29 to 45 centimeters (11.4 to 17.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) very cobbly sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 21 percent clay; very hard, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; high excavation difficulty; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries on surfaces along pores; 25 percent by volume rounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 25 percent by volume rounded indurated 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Bt3—45 to 50 centimeters (17.7 to 19.7 inches); white (10YR 8/1) extremely stony clay loam; 40 percent sand; 38 percent clay; very hard, slightly sticky, very plastic; extremely high excavation difficulty; 75 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent medium iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 15 percent by volume rounded indurated 2-?-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume rounded indurated 250-?-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 40 percent by volume rounded indurated 75-?-250 millimeter mixed fragments.; observed in pit, small
    2Cd—50 to 75 centimeters (19.7 to 29.5 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small