IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Argonaut
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1966-CA-05-018x
  • User Pedon ID: 66-CA-05-018x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6605018
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42103
  • Print Date: 5/1/2024

    • 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: 37.9205437
  • Std. Longitude: -120.7225090
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: NW/4, SW/4
  • Map Unit: 7085—Bonanza-Loafercreek 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: 37120-H6—Copperopolis, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JAD, COS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, thermic Mollic 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 - Argonaut
  • PSC - 33 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/14/2016
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - ARGONAUT
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, thermic Mollic Haploxeralfs
  • 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: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—33

    33—56

    56—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

    13

    —

    —

    293

    —

    90

    457

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    5

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and 50 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD00526
    A2—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD00527
    C—28 to 33 centimeters (11.0 to 13.0 inches); fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD00528
    Bt1—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; clay; massive; very hard, extremely firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 0.1 very fine irregular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00529
    Bt2—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; clay; massive; moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # UCD00530
    R—56 to 200 centimeters (22.0 to 78.7 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD00531