IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bottlehill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: R09CA630BAH004
  • User Pedon ID: S2009BAH004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: R09CA630BAH004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0898
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28319
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 37.7799988
  • Std. Longitude: -120.2044449
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1 S
  • Range: 16 E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: about 1406 feet south and 465 feet west of the northeast corner section
  • Map Unit: 8175—Copperopolis-Hetchy complex, 8 to 30 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: California
  • County: CA109—Tuolumne
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Regional Office: SW—Southwest
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA630—Central Sierra Foothills Area, California, Parts of Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37120-G2—Groveland, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bev Harben
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Xeric Haplohumults
  • 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 - Bottlehill (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 12 to 62 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arpatutu
  • Classificaton Date - 5/13/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from phyllite
  • Landscape: Sierra Nevada foothills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountaintop
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent moderate weathered phyllite at 80cm with <10
  • Geology: Sullivan Terranes formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 12.00 percent flat indurated phyllite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/13/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Sierra Mixed Conifers
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARCTO3

    CHLOR3

    HEAR5

    LUPIN

    PILA

    PIPO

    QUVE

    QUWI2

    TRIFO

    Arctostaphylos

    Chlorogalum

    Heteromeles arbutifolia

    Lupinus

    Pinus lambertiana

    Pinus ponderosa

    Quercus velutina

    Quercus wislizeni

    Trifolium

    manzanita

    soapplant

    toyon

    lupine

    sugar pine

    ponderosa pine

    black oak

    interior live oak

    clover

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    bedrock, lithic

    moderately coherent

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    80 - 93

    93 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic materials

    lithic contact

    0—12

    12—80

    80—93

    93—

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

    5/13/2009

    20

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    19
    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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    1041

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    116

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A—1 to 12 centimeters (0.4 to 4.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry; very channery silt loam; 28 percent sand; 59 percent silt; 13 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-76 millimeter phyllite fragments and 30 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-?-150 millimeter phyllite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N04400
    Bt1—12 to 29 centimeters (4.7 to 11.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; extremely channery silt loam; 27 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 16 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 20 percent faint brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-76 millimeter phyllite fragments and 60 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-?-150 millimeter phyllite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N04401
    Bt2—29 to 50 centimeters (11.4 to 19.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; extremely channery silt loam; 21 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 19 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 20 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films on rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-76 millimeter phyllite fragments and 70 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-?-150 millimeter phyllite fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.3, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N04402
    Bt3—50 to 80 centimeters (19.7 to 31.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; very channery silty clay loam; 19 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 27 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 2.0 medium tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 12 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores and 13 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-76 millimeter phyllite fragments and 40 percent by volume flat angular indurated 2-?-150 millimeter phyllite fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.9, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N04403
    Cr—80 to 93 centimeters (31.5 to 36.6 inches); bedrock; fragments.
    R—93 to 200 centimeters (36.6 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.