IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Exchequer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009CAL-001
  • User Pedon ID: S09CAL-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD09L001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43082
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 38.0592613
  • Std. Longitude: -120.5630112
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 7088—Loafercreek-Gopheridge complex, 30 to 60 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-A5—Angels Camp, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DB and ATO
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, nonacid, thermic Lithic Xerorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Exchequer
  • PSC - 0 to 24 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/30/2015
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: phyllite at 24cm
  • Geology: Mariposa Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent indurated 250- to 600-millimeter phyllite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/13/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Microrelief Kind: microlow
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    24 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—18

    24—

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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

    7

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    1200

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    310

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    25

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD02205
    A—1 to 5 centimeters (0.4 to 2.0 inches); gravelly loam; 14 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD02206
    Ad—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); gravelly loam; 18 percent clay; moderate thin platy structure; slightly hard, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD02207
    Bw—10 to 24 centimeters (3.9 to 9.4 inches); extremely channery loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, moderately sticky, very plastic; 20 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume indurated 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD02208
    R—24 to 24 centimeters (9.4 to 9.4 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD02209