IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Meeks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004CA017006
  • User Pedon ID: 04CA017006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2004CA017006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0024
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17327
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 38.8490181
  • Std. Longitude: -120.0794296
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 north
  • Range: 17 east
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: northwest 1/4 of the northwest 1/4, 1220 feet south and 425 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: 7489—Meeks gravelly loamy coarse sand, 30 to 70 percent slopes, rubbly
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: California
  • County: CA017—El Dorado
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38120-G1—Echo Lake, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kevin Connelly & Trina Camping
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Dystric Xerorthents
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Meeks
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2015
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Meeks
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Dystric Xerorthents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/19/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: moraine glaciofluvial deposits derived from granite
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainbase
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/19/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • 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

    ARNE

    ERUM

    JUOC

    PICO

    PIJE

    QUVA

    Arctostaphylos nevadensis

    Eriogonum umbellatum

    Juniperus occidentalis

    Pinus contorta

    Pinus jeffreyi

    Quercus vacciniifolia

    pinemat manzanita

    sulphur-flower buckwheat

    western juniper

    lodgepole pine

    Jeffrey pine

    huckleberry oak

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

    umbric epipedon

    0—80

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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

    72

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    2329

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    70

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    936

    Echo Lake

    SNOTEL
    Oe—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A—8 to 38 centimeters (3.1 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak medium granular, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; nonsticky, nonplastic; deformable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout and 5.0 coarse roots throughout; 5.0 very fine tubular and 5.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small. Coarse roots end at the bottom of the A horizon.
    Bw—38 to 80 centimeters (15.0 to 31.5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 12 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; nonsticky, nonplastic; semideformable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 5.0 medium roots throughout and 5.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C—80 to 110 centimeters (31.5 to 43.3 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6), reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 12 percent clay; structureless massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; semideformable; 0.2 coarse roots throughout; 5.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; 11 pounds of seive - <19mm; 22 pounds of total sample; strongly acid, pH 5.1.; observed in pit, small. Firm in place, hard digging with a spade. Did not hit definitive bedrock, but in place angular rock fragments.