IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Argonaut
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008CALATIGO-001
  • User Pedon ID: S08CALATIGO-001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2008CALATIGO-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD08LAT001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43066
  • Print Date: 4/29/2024

    • 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: 38.0963936
  • Std. Longitude: -120.6835098
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 7074—Loafercreek-Bonanza 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: 38120-A6—Salt Spring Valley, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DB,ATO
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, thermic Ultic 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 - 12 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/15/2019
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, semiactive, thermic Mollic Haploxeralfs
  • PSC - 12 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/2/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: SAL/SAP
  • Landscape: foothills
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: greenstone at 60cm with =>200
  • Geology: Calaveras Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/2/2008 (entry creation date)
  • Microrelief Kind: microlow
  • 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

    QUAG

    QUDO

    Quercus agrifolia

    Quercus douglasii

    California live oak

    blue oak

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    60 -

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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—12

    12—60

    60—

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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

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    200

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; loam; 51 percent sand; 34 percent silt; 15 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 8 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD02042
    Ad—3 to 12 centimeters (1.2 to 4.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; loam; 38 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 22 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout; 2 percent fine prominent manganese masses in matrix and 2 percent medium prominent manganese masses in matrix; 10 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD02043
    Bt1—12 to 26 centimeters (4.7 to 10.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), red (2.5YR 4/6), moist; very cobbly clay loam; 27 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 32 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 50 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD02044
    Bt2—26 to 60 centimeters (10.2 to 23.6 inches);, dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist; clay; 20 percent sand; 29 percent silt; 51 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately sticky, very plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 90 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 13 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD02045
    Crt—60 to 60 centimeters (23.6 to 23.6 inches); clay films; fragments. Lab sample # UCD02046