IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Whittell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1999NV005066
  • User Pedon ID: 1999NV005066
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0303
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11818
  • Print Date: 1/29/2025

    • 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: 38.9486833
  • Std. Longitude: -119.8957889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 9461—Whittell-Jobsis-Rock outcrop complex, cool, 30 to 75 percent slopes
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV005—Douglas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: FFF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed Typic Cryorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Whittell
  • Classificaton Date - 4/25/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Bedrock: granite at 56cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/6/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 9
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    50

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    2624

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    350

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. no sample; cobble-sized fragments are channers.
    A1—3 to 5 centimeters (1.2 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; gravelly loamy sand; 80 percent sand; 5 percent clay; weak very thick platy structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 18 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P2209. Water Repel: Ext. High; Mst: DM; 20% organic matter by 'visual volume'.
    A2—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; gravelly loamy sand; 80 percent sand; 5 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P2210. Water Repel: Ext. High; Mst: DS; 20% Organic Matter by 'Visual Volume'.
    Bw1—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; gravelly loamy sand; 80 percent sand; 6 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular, and moderate very fine granular structure; 5.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and coarse roots; 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 14 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P2211. Water repel: Ext. High; Mst: MS; 15% organic matter by 'Visual Volume'.
    Bw2—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; channery loamy sand; 85 percent sand; 3 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate very fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 very coarse roots and 4.0 medium roots and fine roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 16 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P2212. Water Repel: Mod. High; mst: MS; 15% organic material by 'Visual Volume'.
    Bw3—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; very stony loamy sand; 86 percent sand; 2 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate very fine, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 very coarse roots and 5.0 medium roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 10 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 12 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P2213. Water Repel: Mod. High; Mst: MS
    C—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), dry; very bouldery sand; 95 percent sand; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots; 5 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter unspecified fragments and 14 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 600-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P2214. Water Repel: Mod. High; Mst: MS
    Cr—56 to 66 centimeters (22.0 to 26.0 inches); fragments; clear wavy boundary. No sample.
    R—66 centimeters (26.0 inches); fragments. no sample.