IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Whittell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1999NV031014
  • User Pedon ID: 1999NV031014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0366
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11880
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 39.1875028
  • Std. Longitude: -119.8974444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: utm's derived from drg's in arcmap
  • Map Unit: 9461—Whittell-Jobsis-Rock outcrop complex, cool, 30 to 75 percent slopes
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV031—Washoe
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: FFF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed Humic Dystrocryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 48
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Whittell
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/12/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 4
  • 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
    • 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

    30

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    2612

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; very cobbly sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 10 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; slightly sticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 11 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 00P2533. Hydrophobicity: >10 sec; Gravel is 25% OM by visual volume.
    AC—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; very cobbly sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 9 percent clay; weak very fine granular, and single grain; slightly sticky, nonplastic; 13 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 00P2534. Hydrophobicity: 5 sec; gravel is 5% OM by visual volume.
    C1—18 to 43 centimeters (7.1 to 16.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; very cobbly sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 11 percent clay; massive; 0.1 very fine roots and 0.1 fine roots; 12 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 00P2535
    C2—43 to 84 centimeters (16.9 to 33.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; very cobbly sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 12 percent clay; massive; friable; 0.1 fine roots; 12 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 00P2536. Films: faint bridging on fragments; Hydrophobicity: 1 sec.
    R—84 centimeters (33.1 inches); fragments.