IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bottlehill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: R09CA630SMM014
  • User Pedon ID: S2009SMM014
  • Vegetation Plot ID: R09CA630SMM014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0456
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24753
  • 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: 38.3272209
  • Std. Longitude: -120.3936081
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6 N
  • Range: 14 E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: about 50 feet east and 1450 feet north of the southwest corner section
  • Location Description: About 6.7 miles east of the community of Railroad Flat, California
  • Map Unit: 8287—Jocal-Fiddletown complex, 30 to 60 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA009—Calaveras
  • MLRA: 22—Sierra Nevada Range
  • 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-C4—Fort Mountain, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Sue Malone
  • 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
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bottlehill
  • PSC - 18 to 61 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 - Ultic Haploxeralfs skeletal
  • Classificaton Date - 7/21/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium over residuum weathered from argillite
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, center third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent moderate weathered argillite at 61cm with 45 to <100
  • Geology: Calaveras Complex Melange formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/21/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: Sierran Mixed Conifer - SMC5
  • 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

    ARMA

    CHFO

    PILA

    PIPO

    QUCH2

    QUKE

    TODI

    Arctostaphylos manzanita

    Chamaebatia foliolosa

    Pinus lambertiana

    Pinus ponderosa

    Quercus chrysolepis

    Quercus kelloggii

    Toxicodendron diversilobum

    whiteleaf manzanita

    mountain misery

    sugar pine

    ponderosa pine

    canyon live oak

    California black oak

    Pacific poison oak

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

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    61 - 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—18

    18—61

    61—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

    45

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    1227

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    180

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    Oi—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    Oe—8 to 10 centimeters (3.1 to 3.9 inches); 7.5YR (7.5YR/), moderately decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; gravelly loam; 45 percent sand; 35 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.8 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-76 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry; very gravelly loam; 40 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.8 very fine roots and 0.8 medium roots and 0.8 fine roots and 0.8 coarse roots; 0.8 very fine tubular and 0.8 fine tubular pores; 20 percent distinct light brown (7.5YR 6/3), dry, silt coats on all faces of peds and 20 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-76 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.
    C/Bt—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry; very gravelly clay loam; 35 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 28 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.8 very fine irregular and 0.8 fine irregular pores; 30 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 76-?-250 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-76 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.
    R—61 to 200 centimeters (24.0 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.