IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): FIDDLETOWN
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1960CA005027
  • User Pedon ID: S1960CA005027
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38135
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 38.4908333
  • Std. Longitude: -120.7094421
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 0.12 mile SE of the center of the NE1/4
  • Location Description: 200 feet south of the east dam on Bateman Ranch, 3/8 mile east of the ranch house; 200 feet up the slope from the north fork of Deadman Creek.
  • State: California
  • County: CA005—Amador
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA628—Amador Area, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Grant Kennedy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Pachic Xerumbrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 27
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - FIDDLETOWN
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fiddletown
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1960
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: slight weathered schist, unspecified at 117cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1960 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    20

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    —

    658

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    0

    838

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    12.8

    21.1

    4.4

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    A1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (7.5YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; gravelly loam; moderate very fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and tubular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23598
    AC—20 to 56 centimeters (7.9 to 22.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly loam; moderate very fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 fine and medium roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and tubular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 75-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23599
    C1—56 to 117 centimeters (22.0 to 46.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine to coarse roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and tubular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 80 percent by volume 2-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A23600
    R—117 centimeters (46.1 inches); very dark gray (N 3/0), gray (N 5/0), dry; bedrock; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A23601