IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sites
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982CA017316
  • User Pedon ID: 82CA017316
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 83P0262
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 52504
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • LOCATION

  • State: California
  • County: CA017—El Dorado

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, parasesquic, mesic Xeric Haplohumults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 316
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sites
  • Classificaton Date - 12/11/2018
  • Classifier - Andrew Brown
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sites
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, oxidic, mesic Xeric Haplohumult
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1982
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    14

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    45

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    O—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); unknown texture; fragments.
    A1—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) interior loam; 16 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P01197. many very fine roots
    A2—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior loam; 18 percent clay; massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P01197. common very fine roots; few fine and medium roots
    Bt1—28 to 39 centimeters (11.0 to 15.4 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior clay loam; 36 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P01198. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine and medium roots; few coarse roots
    Bt2—39 to 67 centimeters (15.4 to 26.4 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior clay; 42 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P01199. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine and medium roots; few coarse roots
    Bt3—67 to 105 centimeters (26.4 to 41.3 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 fine and medium roots and 0.1 coarse roots; 15 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 83P01200. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; very few fine and medium roots; very few coarse roots
    C1—105 to 168 centimeters (41.3 to 66.1 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior clay loam; 30 percent clay; massive; friable, moderately sticky; 0.1 coarse roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 83P01201. very few coarse roots
    C2—168 to 181 centimeters (66.1 to 71.3 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Soft, weathered schist.