IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Argonaut
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959CA005005
  • User Pedon ID: S1959CA005005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959CA005005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2913
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37492
  • Print Date: 4/30/2024

    • 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: 38.3544426
  • Std. Longitude: -120.7958298
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: On the Garbarini Ranch, 1-1/4 miles west of Jackson on the Pardee Dam Road in the SW1/4 of SW1/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA005—Amador
  • MLRA: 18—Sierra Nevada Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA628—Amador Area, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Grant Kennedy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, thermic Ultic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Argonaut
  • PSC - 25 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Argonaut
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    QUAL

    QUDO

    Quercus alba

    Quercus douglasii

    white oak

    blue oak

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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

    7

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    442

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    0

    686

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    A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) and yellowish red (5YR 5/8), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; gravelly silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; 21.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine and 1.0 medium and coarse pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A22969
    A12—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine and 3.0 medium tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A22970
    B1—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine and 1.0 medium and coarse pores; clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A22971. continuous - phpvsfiid 196548; continuous - phpvsfiid 196548
    B21—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; gravelly clay; massive; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots and fine and medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine and 2.0 medium and coarse pores; clay bridges and 30 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A22972. continuous - phpvsfiid 196549; continuous - phpvsfiid 196549
    B22—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; gravelly clay loam; massive; 1.0 very fine and fine and medium pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A22973
    CR—76 to 76 centimeters (29.9 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist; massive; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 40A22974. Dominantly yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) weathered meta-andesite with some olive gray staining.