IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brantel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986CA051001
  • User Pedon ID: 86CA051001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0817
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59111
  • 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: 37.8922234
  • Std. Longitude: -119.0738907
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 26E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: About 1800 feet W and 1000 feet S of the NE corner
  • State: California
  • County: CA051—Mono
  • MLRA: 29—Southern Nevada Basin and Range

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Fred Fischer and Tom Caudill
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy, glassy, mesic Vitrandic Torripsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Brantel
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brantel
  • Taxonomic Class - Ashy, mesic Xeric Torripsamment
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: intermontane basin
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—20

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    Setting and Climate
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    2086

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    1A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; sand; weak coarse platy structure; soft, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter pyroclastic, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P04931; dry when described;. many very fine roots
    1A2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, moist; loamy sand; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular and 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter pyroclastic, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04932; moist when described;. common very fine and fine roots
    1Bt1—20 to 56 centimeters (7.9 to 22.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, moist; loamy sand; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent , moist, clay films between sand grains; 8 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter pyroclastic, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P04933; moist when described;. few clay films surface features between sand grains; few very fine roots; few medium roots
    1Bt2—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); white (10YR 8/1) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, moist; loamy sand; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent , moist, clay films between sand grains; 8 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter pyroclastic, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P04934; moist when described;. few clay films surface features between sand grains; few very fine roots; few medium roots
    1Bt3—76 to 125 centimeters (29.9 to 49.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; loamy sand; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; , moist, clay films between sand grains; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter pyroclastic, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, thymol-blue; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P04935; moist when described;. few very fine roots; few medium roots
    1Bt4—125 to 172 centimeters (49.2 to 67.7 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; loamy sand; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular and 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent , moist, clay films between sand grains and 37 percent , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter pyroclastic, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter pyroclastic, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 86P04936; moist when described;. few clay films surface features between sand grains; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots; few fine roots