IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Beybek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 11CA630CKS075
  • User Pedon ID: S2011CA009002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 11CA630CKS075
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N7642
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55300
  • 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: 38.0819444
  • Std. Longitude: -120.4527778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 03N
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 245 meters south and 625 meters east of the northwest corner of the section.
  • Map Unit: 8317—Beybek-Rock outcrop complex, 3 to 30 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-A4—Columbia, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Chris Savastio
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic Leptic Haploxererts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Beybek
  • PSC - 24 to 74 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 - Beybek
  • Classificaton Date - 10/25/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from marble over residuum weathered from marble
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated marble at 82cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/25/2011 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AVENA

    PISA2

    QUDO

    TRHI4

    Avena

    Pinus sabiniana

    Quercus douglasii

    Trifolium hirtum

    oat

    California foothill pine

    blue oak

    rose clover

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    82 - 203

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    slickensides

    lithic contact

    0—82

    24—82

    49—82

    82—

    —82—

    —58—

    —33—

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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

    28

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    609

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    250

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; 23 percent sand; 39 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 0.8 fine tubular pores; 8 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-20 millimeter marble fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt1—10 to 24 centimeters (3.9 to 9.4 inches); very dark gray (5YR 3/1), dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2), moist; clay; 23 percent sand; 40 percent clay; weak coarse angular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 0.8 very fine irregular and 0.8 fine tubular pores; 75 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 7 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-20 millimeter marble fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt2—24 to 49 centimeters (9.4 to 19.3 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), moist; cobbly clay; 19 percent sand; 46 percent clay; weak coarse angular blocky structure; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; 80 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 76-?-250 millimeter marble fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-?-600 millimeter marble fragments and 6 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-76 millimeter marble fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.
    Btss—49 to 82 centimeters (19.3 to 32.3 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2), dark reddish brown (5YR 2.5/2), moist; extremely stony clay; 20 percent sand; 50 percent clay; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, extremely firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 0.8 coarse roots throughout; 0.8 very fine irregular pores; 10 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds and 85 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat moderately coherent cemented 76-?-250 millimeter marble fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat moderately coherent cemented 2-?-76 millimeter marble fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 76-?-250 millimeter marble fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-?-600 millimeter marble fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-76 millimeter marble fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.3, pH meter; clear wavy boundary.
    R—82 to 203 centimeters (32.3 to 79.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.