IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pardee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980-CA-05-084x
  • User Pedon ID: 80-CA-05-084x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD8005084
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42369
  • Print Date: 5/13/2024

    • 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: 38.1700320
  • Std. Longitude: -120.8628940
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: NE/4, SW/4
  • Map Unit: 5201—Pardee cobbly loam, 2 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: 38120-B7—Valley Springs, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JPO
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Mollic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pardee
  • PSC - 30 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/23/2015
  • Classifier - Theresa Kunch
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: ALL
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Gravelly Alluvium. Geologic Fo formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/2/2009 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    43 - 150

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—30

    30—43

    43—68

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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

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    229

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    315

    508

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    18.3

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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 53 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 12 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 22 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-50-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD00713
    A2—3 to 30 centimeters (1.2 to 11.8 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 52 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 14 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 26 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-50-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD00714
    Bt—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; very gravelly loam; 50 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 19 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-50-75 millimeter mixed fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00715
    Cr—43 to 150 centimeters (16.9 to 59.1 inches); bedrock; moderately coherent; fragments. Lab sample # UCD00716