IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dunstone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009CAL-002
  • User Pedon ID: S09CAL-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD09L002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43083
  • 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: 38.0593872
  • Std. Longitude: -120.5632477
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 7088—Loafercreek-Gopheridge complex, 30 to 60 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-A5—Angels Camp, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DB and ATO
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Ultic 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 - Dunstone
  • PSC - 21 to 45 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/25/2018
  • Classifier - Theresa Kunch
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: COL/RES
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: fan remnant
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • 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
    F018XI201CA Moderately Deep Thermic Foothills Jul 6 2017 Julie Baker

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/13/2009 (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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    45 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—18

    6—21

    21—45

    45—

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    —-

    —-

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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

    51

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    —

    1200

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    345

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    —

    —

    —

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    25

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00843
    A—2 to 6 centimeters (0.8 to 2.4 inches); gravelly loam; 17 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00844
    AB—6 to 21 centimeters (2.4 to 8.3 inches); loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; slightly hard, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD00845
    Bt—21 to 45 centimeters (8.3 to 17.7 inches); gravelly silt loam; 25 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; moderately hard, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 15 percent by volume indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # UCD00846. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 662263; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 662263
    Cr/C—45 to 58 centimeters (17.7 to 22.8 inches); extremely channery loam; 20 percent clay; massive; moderately hard, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 65 percent by volume indurated 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD00847
    Cr—58 to 66 centimeters (22.8 to 26.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD00848