IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Argonaut
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1966-CA-05-019x
  • User Pedon ID: 66-CA-05-019x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6605019
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42104
  • 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: 37.9751405
  • Std. Longitude: -120.7370031
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: SE/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 Palexeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Argonaut
  • PSC - 25 to 75 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 Palexeralfs
  • 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—25

    25—86

    86—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

    8

    —

    —

    433

    —

    45

    508

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    —

    5

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    —

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; loam; weak medium granular 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 fine irregular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00588
    BA—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8), 50 percent 5YR 3/6 (5YR 3/6) and 50 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine irregular and 21.0 very fine irregular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00589
    Bt1—25 to 61 centimeters (9.8 to 24.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), 50 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 50 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; clay; massive; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.1 medium irregular and 0.1 fine irregular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # UCD00590
    Bt2—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; clay; massive; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; 0.1 medium irregular and 0.1 fine irregular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00591
    Bt3—81 to 86 centimeters (31.9 to 33.9 inches); 5YR 4/8 (5YR 4/8), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; clay loam; weak very coarse subangular blocky parts to massive; very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; 0.1 medium irregular and 0.1 fine irregular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4. Lab sample # UCD00592
    R—86 to 200 centimeters (33.9 to 78.7 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD00593