IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Moccasinhill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2007CA630RJV001
  • User Pedon ID: S08CA109002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2007CA630RJV001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0695
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20310
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 37.8064842
  • Std. Longitude: -120.2570953
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1 S
  • Range: 15 E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: about 1860 feet west and 3085 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: about 1 mile southeast of Moccasin, CA
  • Map Unit: 8178—Moccasinhill-Copperopolis complex, 60 to 90 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • 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-G3—Moccasin, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Vobora
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, thermic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Moccasinhill
  • PSC - 25 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/28/2015
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Moccasinhill
  • Classificaton Date - 5/31/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from phyllite and/or residuum weathered from phyllite
  • Landscape: Sierra Nevada foothills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated phyllite at 80cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Sulliven Creek Terrane member of the Calaveras Complex formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent indurated 150- to 380-millimeter phyllite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/31/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Chaparral
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 33
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ADFA

    ARCTO3

    ERCA6

    HEAR5

    Adenostoma fasciculatum

    Arctostaphylos

    Eriodictyon californicum

    Heteromeles arbutifolia

    chamise

    manzanita

    California yerba santa

    toyon

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    80 - 105

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—20

    20—50

    80—105

    —18—

    —42—

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    5/31/2007

    50

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    25
    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

    69

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    805

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    135

    686

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) broken face, moist; channery silt loam; 30 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 13 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout; 0.8 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 20-?-75 millimeter phyllite fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-?-20 millimeter phyllite fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, moist; extremely channery silt loam; 27 percent sand; 58 percent silt; 16 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 0.8 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent faint light brown (7.5YR 6/4) silt coats on all faces of peds; 8 percent by volume flat 20-?-75 millimeter phyllite fragments and 10 percent by volume subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-?-250 millimeter phyllite fragments and 42 percent by volume flat 2-?-20 millimeter phyllite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—20 to 50 centimeters (7.9 to 19.7 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; extremely channery silt loam; 24 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 19 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout; 2 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds and 5 percent faint light brown (7.5YR 6/4) silt coats on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter phyllite fragments and 20 percent by volume flat indurated 2-?-20 millimeter phyllite fragments and 25 percent by volume flat indurated 20-?-75 millimeter phyllite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    BC—50 to 80 centimeters (19.7 to 31.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; extremely flaggy silt loam; 31 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 0.8 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume flat indurated 2-?-20 millimeter phyllite fragments and 35 percent by volume flat indurated 20-?-75 millimeter phyllite fragments and 50 percent by volume subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter phyllite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    R—80 to 105 centimeters (31.5 to 41.3 inches); bedrock; indurated; fragments.; observed in pit, small