IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hargran
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999CA003001
  • User Pedon ID: 99CA003001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999CA003001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0464
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11969
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.6196404
  • Std. Longitude: -119.9172745
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: South of Hope Valley
  • State: California
  • County: CA003—Alpine
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA686—Coleville-Bridgeport Area, Parts of Alpine and Mono Counties, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38119-F8—Carson Pass, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: EWB/JBF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive Oxyaquic Humicryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hargran (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 99 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/6/2019
  • Classifier - Andrew Paolucci
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hargran (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Ashy-skeletal, mixed Humic Xeric Vitricryand
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/26/1999
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 11.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/26/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 3793-96
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    PIMO3

    TSME

    Pinus monticola

    Tsuga mertensiana

    western white pine

    mountain hemlock

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    97 - 200

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

    umbric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    lithic contact

    10—61

    61—97

    97—200

    —51—

    —36—

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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

    22

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    2549

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    320

    114

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    Oi—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; slightly decomposed plant material; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P02922. partially decomposed litter material.
    A1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; stony loamy coarse sand; 80 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 21.0 fine to coarse roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P02923. field estimate 13% clay.
    A2—23 to 61 centimeters (9.1 to 24.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; stony loamy sand; 79 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 21.0 medium and coarse roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P02924. field estimate 13% clay.
    Bw—61 to 97 centimeters (24.0 to 38.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; very stony loamy sand; 78 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 2 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine to coarse roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 25 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 00P02925. field estimate 12% clay.
    R—97 to 200 centimeters (38.2 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments. hard granitic bedrock; this layer not sampled.