IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lastsummer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2006CA051148
  • User Pedon ID: 2006CA051148
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 06CA686A148amb
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0053
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19096
  • 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: 38.2067500
  • Std. Longitude: -119.0311389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: California
  • County: CA051—Mono
  • MLRA: 26—Carson Basin and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA686—Coleville-Bridgeport Area, Parts of Alpine and Mono Counties, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38119-B1—Bodie, California
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ed Blake, Adam Boner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy-skeletal over loamy-skeletal, glassy over mixed, superactive Vitrandic Argicryolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lastsummer
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/7/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lastsummer
  • Classificaton Date - 7/12/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium andesite w/ eolian ash
  • Landform: mountain
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments: 20.00 percent 2- to 76-millimeter 2.00 percent 250- to 600-millimeter 2.00 percent 600- to 1000-millimeter 5.00 percent 76- to 250-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R026XY108NV ASHY SLOPE 14-16 P.Z.
  • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/12/2006 (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

    ACOCO

    ARTRV

    CADO2

    CHDO

    KOMA

    LECI4

    LUPIN

    Achnatherum occidentale ssp. occidentale

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana

    Carex douglasii

    Chaenactis douglasii

    Koeleria macrantha

    Leymus cinereus

    Lupinus

    western needlegrass

    mountain big sagebrush

    Douglas' sedge

    Douglas' dustymaiden

    prairie Junegrass

    basin wildrye

    lupine

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

    mollic epipedon

    volcanic glass

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—41

    0—75

    18—155

    84—

    —41—

    —75—

    —137—

    —-

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

    7/12/2006

    51

    14

    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

    4

    2640

    350

    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly ashy fine sandy loam; 7 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 6.0 very fine roots; 6.0 very fine interstitial pores; 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear wavy boundary.
    A2—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly ashy sandy loam; 9 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 6.0 very fine and fine roots; 6.0 very fine interstitial pores; 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; very gravelly ashy fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 6.0 very fine and fine roots; 2.0 very fine interstitial and 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 35 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt2—41 to 84 centimeters (16.1 to 33.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; very gravelly ashy sandy loam; 15 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots; 2.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 35 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary.
    2Btq1—84 to 102 centimeters (33.1 to 40.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; extremely stony sandy loam; 18 percent clay; massive; very hard, firm by silica, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots; 2.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 30 percent weakly coherent cemented ; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-400-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 76-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; clear wavy boundary.
    2Btq2—102 to 132 centimeters (40.2 to 52.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; extremely cobbly loam; 20 percent clay; massive; very hard, extremely firm by silica, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.4 very fine roots; 2.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 0.4 very fine and fine tubular pores; 5 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores and 25 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains and 25 percent distinct silt coats on surfaces along pores; 2 percent fine N 0 (N0) manganese masses; 25 percent weakly coherent cemented and 20 percent moderately coherent cemented ; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-400-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 76-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; clear wavy boundary.
    2Btq3—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; extremely cobbly sandy clay loam; 21 percent clay; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm by silica, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.4 very fine roots; 2.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 5 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains and 25 percent distinct silt coats on surfaces along pores; 1 percent fine N 0 (N0) manganese masses; 20 percent weakly coherent cemented and 20 percent moderately coherent cemented ; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-400-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 76-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7.