IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Angelscreek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 11CA630MJE008
  • User Pedon ID: S2011CA009001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 11CA630MJE008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N6749
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55342
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.1052778
  • Std. Longitude: -120.5605556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 03N
  • Range: 13E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: About 34 meters south and 147 meters west of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Calaveras County, California, about 2 miles north of Altaville, CA.
  • Map Unit: 4200—Inks-Angelscreek complex, 3 to 15 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA009—Calaveras
  • MLRA: 18—Sierra Nevada Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA630—Central Sierra Foothills Area, California, Parts of Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38120-A5—Angels Camp, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MJE
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic, thermic Pachic Ultic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Angelscreek (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 50 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/23/2015
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Angelscreek
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: Sierra Nevada foothills
  • Landform: hill
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 76- to 250-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F018XI207CA Deep Volcanic Plateaus and Hills May 17 2016 David Evans

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/8/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—50

    50—160

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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

    1

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    502

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    161

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    A—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; 35 percent sand; 19 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 8.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 76-?-250 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-?-76 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, pH meter; abrupt wavy boundary.
    ABt—4 to 20 centimeters (1.6 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; 34 percent sand; 19 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 8.0 fine roots throughout; 0.8 very fine irregular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 76-?-250 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-?-76 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt1—20 to 50 centimeters (7.9 to 19.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; very cobbly loam; 36 percent sand; 19 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 0.8 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 fine irregular pores; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-?-76 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 76-?-250 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt2—50 to 72 centimeters (19.7 to 28.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; extremely cobbly loam; 37 percent sand; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 very coarse roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 0.8 very fine irregular and 0.8 very fine tubular pores; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 30 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 76-?-250 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-?-76 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt3—72 to 92 centimeters (28.3 to 36.2 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; extremely cobbly clay loam; 34 percent sand; 35 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.8 very coarse roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout and 0.8 coarse roots throughout; 0.8 very fine irregular pores; 50 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded weakly coherent cemented 2-?-76 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-?-76 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 76-?-250 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt4—92 to 128 centimeters (36.2 to 50.4 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; extremely cobbly clay loam; 41 percent sand; 29 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 250-?-600 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded weakly coherent cemented 76-?-250 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded weakly coherent cemented 2-?-76 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 76-?-250 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-?-76 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt5—128 to 160 centimeters (50.4 to 63.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; extremely cobbly clay loam; 43 percent sand; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very coarse roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat rounded weakly coherent cemented 76-?-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat rounded weakly coherent cemented 2-?-76 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 76-?-250 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-?-76 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, pH meter.