IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bonanza
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1965-CA-05-005x
  • User Pedon ID: 65-CA-05-005x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6505005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42070
  • Print Date: 4/28/2024

    • 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: 38.0510676
  • Std. Longitude: -120.7206988
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: NW/4, SW/4
  • Map Unit: 7086—Loafercreek-Gopheridge complex, 15 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-A6—Salt Spring Valley, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JAD, WLC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bonanza
  • PSC - 10 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/2018
  • Classifier - Cathy Scott
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - AUBURN
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, thermic Lithic Xerochrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/26/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: greenstone
  • Geology: Greenstone formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F018XI200CA Low Elevation Foothills Jul 6 2017 Julie Baker

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/26/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    lithic contact

    0—10

    10—38

    38—43

    43—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

    16

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    —

    366

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    248

    635

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    5

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; loam; 32 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 fine irregular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume strongly coherent cemented 2-20-76 millimeter metavolcanics fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD04325
    Bt—10 to 38 centimeters (3.9 to 15.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; loam; 29 percent sand; 49 percent silt; 23 percent clay; structureless coarse subangular blocky parts to massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine irregular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent clay films; 11 percent by volume strongly coherent cemented 2-20-76 millimeter metavolcanics fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD04326
    Crt—38 to 43 centimeters (15.0 to 16.9 inches); bedrock; soft; fragments. Lab sample # UCD04327
    R—43 to 200 centimeters (16.9 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.