IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tephzite
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2017CA051027
  • User Pedon ID: 2017CA051027
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0054
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19097
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 38.1469444
  • Std. Longitude: -119.1204167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: in the Bodie Hills about 1.6 kilometers southeast of Mormon Meadow
  • 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
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy-skeletal over loamy-skeletal, glassy over mixed, semiactive, frigid Vitrandic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tephzite (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/7/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tephzite
  • Classificaton Date - 8/10/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium and/or residuum weathered from quartzite influenced by volcanic ash in the surface
  • Landform: mountain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: quartzite at 163cm
  • Surface Fragments: 40.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter quartzite, 1.00 percent nonflat 250- to 600-millimeter quartzite, 5.00 percent nonflat 75- to 250-millimeter quartzite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/10/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    163 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    volcanic glass

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithic contact

    0—89

    0—61

    18—163

    61—

    163—

    —89—

    —61—

    —145—

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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

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    2360

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very gravelly ashy very fine sandy loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (4.0) very fine and fine roots; many (3.0) very fine interstitial pores; 45 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-36-76 millimeter quartzite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear wavy boundary.
    A2—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very gravelly ashy sandy loam; 13 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (4.0) very fine and fine roots; common (2.0) very fine tubular and many (3.0) very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular 76-150-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-36-76 millimeter quartzite fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt1—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; extremely gravelly ashy loam; 18 percent clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common (4.0) very fine to medium roots; common (2.0) very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 15 percent by volume nonflat angular 76-150-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-36-76 millimeter quartzite fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt2—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; extremely gravelly ashy loam; 26 percent clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common (4.0) very fine roots and few (2.0) fine and medium roots; common (2.0) very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores and 35 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 15 percent by volume nonflat angular 76-150-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 55 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-36-76 millimeter quartzite fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary.
    2Bt1—61 to 89 centimeters (24.0 to 35.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; extremely gravelly clay loam; 29 percent clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few (2.0) very fine and fine roots; common (2.0) very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat 76-150-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 65 percent by volume nonflat 2-36-76 millimeter quartzite fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; clear wavy boundary.
    2Bt2—89 to 163 centimeters (35.0 to 64.2 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; extremely gravelly clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; few (2.0) very fine and fine roots; common (2.0) very fine interstitial and common (2.0) fine tubular pores; 60 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 60 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat angular 76-150-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 70 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-36-76 millimeter quartzite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt wavy boundary.
    2R—163 centimeters (64.2 inches); bedrock; fragments.