IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sites
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: R09CA630CKS043
  • User Pedon ID: S2009CKS043
  • Vegetation Plot ID: R09CA630CKS043
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0463
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24760
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 38.3586121
  • Std. Longitude: -120.5194473
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 06N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 2/5 Mile NE of the SW corner of the section
  • Map Unit: 8160—Nedsgulch-Sites complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA009—Calaveras
  • 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: 38120-C5—Rail Road Flat, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Chris Savastio
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, parasesquic, mesic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sites
  • PSC - 21 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/24/2015
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Marjonmine
  • Classificaton Date - 7/21/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from metasedimentary rock over residuum weathered from metasedimentary rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountaintop
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Calaveras Complex Melange formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/21/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    CHFO

    PIPO

    QUKE

    Arctostaphylos

    Chamaebatia foliolosa

    Pinus ponderosa

    Quercus kelloggii

    manzanita

    mountain misery

    ponderosa pine

    California black oak

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—21

    21—185

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

    7/21/2009

    50

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    17
    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

    9

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    2643

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    280

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    Oi—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    A—6 to 12 centimeters (2.4 to 4.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 8 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 0.8 coarse roots; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-20 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.
    AB—12 to 21 centimeters (4.7 to 8.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), moist; sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 12 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.8 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 0.8 fine roots and 0.8 coarse roots; 0.8 very fine irregular pores; 40 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-20 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt1—21 to 36 centimeters (8.3 to 14.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3), moist; sandy clay loam; 54 percent sand; 30 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.8 very fine roots and 0.8 medium roots and 0.8 fine roots; 0.8 very fine irregular and 0.8 medium tubular pores; 50 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 90 percent faint silt coats on surfaces along pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-20 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bt2—36 to 60 centimeters (14.2 to 23.6 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6), reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3), moist; clay; 44 percent sand; 41 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.8 very fine roots and 0.8 medium roots and 0.8 fine roots; 0.8 very fine irregular and 0.8 medium tubular pores; 75 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 85 percent faint silt coats on surfaces along pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-20 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bt3—60 to 91 centimeters (23.6 to 35.8 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; 37 percent sand; 39 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.8 very fine roots and 0.8 medium roots; 3.0 very fine irregular and 0.8 medium tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-20 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bt4—91 to 126 centimeters (35.8 to 49.6 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6), reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly clay; 33 percent sand; 41 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.8 fine irregular pores; 90 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat indurated 76-?-250 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-76 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary.
    Bt5—126 to 185 centimeters (49.6 to 72.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6), red (2.5YR 4/6), moist; gravelly clay loam; 30 percent sand; 36 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent faint slickensides (pedogenic) on slickensides and 75 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated 76-?-250 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat weakly coherent cemented 2-?-20 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-76 millimeter metasedimentary, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog.