IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tahoe
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: ta-02-300
  • User Pedon ID: 03CA017002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N1044
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15767
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 38.9211845
  • Std. Longitude: -119.9732590
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Trout Creek Watershed
  • State: California
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: William Loftis & Amy Hansen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tahoe
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/25/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landscape: alluvial plain
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/25/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—68

    —68—
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    8/25/2002

    50

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    9
    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

    1

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    1920

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    75

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    A1—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face silt loam; 8 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent medium prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N05346; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—25 to 68 centimeters (9.8 to 26.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 8 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.1 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium tubular pores; 15 percent very coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N05347; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Cg—68 to 82 centimeters (26.8 to 32.3 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) broken face fine sand; 90 percent sand; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 medium roots throughout; 25.0 very fine irregular pores; 10 percent very coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N05348; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ab—82 centimeters (32.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1) crushed very fine sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 3 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 03N05349; moist when described; observed in pit, small