IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Auburn
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1966-CA-05-008x
  • User Pedon ID: 66-CA-05-008x
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1966-CA-05-008x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6605008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42093
  • Print Date: 5/7/2024

    • 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: 37.9318500
  • Std. Longitude: -120.7402490
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: I1E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: SW/4, SW/4
  • Map Unit: 7076—Bonanza-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: 37120-H6—Copperopolis, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JAD, COS, DD, FT
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Lithic Haploxerepts
  • 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 - Auburn
  • PSC - 25 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/22/2016
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • 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 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/23/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Quartz Porphyry. Geologic Form 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: 1/23/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • 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

    QUDO

    Quercus douglasii

    blue oak

    —

    —

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—18

    25—41

    41—200

    —-

    —-

    —-
    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

    25

    —

    —

    210

    —

    180

    508

    —

    —

    20.6

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; loam; 39 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 17 percent by volume strongly coherent cemented 2-20-76 millimeter metavolcanics fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD00594
    Bt—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist; gravelly loam; 38 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 3.0 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent clay films; 24 percent by volume strongly coherent cemented 2-35-75 millimeter metavolcanics fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # UCD00595
    R—41 to 200 centimeters (16.1 to 78.7 inches); hard; fragments. Lab sample # UCD00596