IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bottlehill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: R09CA630BJM052
  • User Pedon ID: S2009BJM052
  • Vegetation Plot ID: R09CA630BJM052
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0457
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24754
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 37.7805557
  • Std. Longitude: -120.1991653
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1 S
  • Range: 16 E
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: about 1100 feet west and 1191 feet south of the northwest corner section
  • Map Unit: 8194—Wallyhill, deep-Lickinfork complex, 40 to 90 percent slopes
  • 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: Ben Marshall
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, active, mesic Xeric Haplohumults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bottlehill
  • PSC - 31 to 60 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 - 5/15/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from phyllite over residuum weathered from phyllite
  • Landscape: Sierra Nevada foothills
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent phyllite at 60cm
  • Geology: Sullivan Terranes formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent flat angular indurated phyllite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/15/2009 (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 - conifers
  • 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

    CADE27

    CEIN3

    FRAGA

    LUPIN

    PILA

    PIPO

    QUAG

    QUKE

    SPDO

    Calocedrus decurrens

    Ceanothus integerrimus

    Fragaria

    Lupinus

    Pinus lambertiana

    Pinus ponderosa

    Quercus agrifolia

    Quercus kelloggii

    Spiraea douglasii

    incense cedar

    deerbrush

    strawberry

    lupine

    sugar pine

    ponderosa pine

    California live oak

    California black oak

    rose spirea

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    strongly coherent

    60 - 200

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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—11

    11—60

    60—200

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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

    60

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    919

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    30

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—2 to 11 centimeters (0.8 to 4.3 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; channery loam; 42 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 17 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-?-76 millimeter phyllite fragments and 15 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter phyllite fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt—11 to 31 centimeters (4.3 to 12.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry; very channery loam; 40 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 19 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 4 percent mica flakes, unspecified in matrix; 20 percent by volume nonflat strongly coherent cemented 2-?-76 millimeter phyllite fragments and 20 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter phyllite fragments; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.
    BCt—31 to 60 centimeters (12.2 to 23.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry; extremely channery silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 30 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 4 percent mica flakes, unspecified in matrix; 70 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-?-150 millimeter phyllite fragments; noneffervescent; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary.
    R—60 to 200 centimeters (23.6 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.