IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Burnlake
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999CA003007
  • User Pedon ID: 99CA003007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999CA003007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0470
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11975
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 38.7972794
  • Std. Longitude: -119.9273071
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: northeast of Luther Pass
  • 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-G8—Freel Peak, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: EWB
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Humic Dystroxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Burnlake
  • Classificaton Date - 1/27/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Burnlake
  • Taxonomic Class - Ashy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Humic Vitrixerand
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/23/1999
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: moraine
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/23/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 3793-114
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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

    BRMA4

    PIJE

    POTR5

    PURSH

    Bromus marginatus

    Pinus jeffreyi

    Populus tremuloides

    Purshia

    mountain brome

    Jeffrey pine

    quaking aspen

    bitterbrush

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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

    45

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    2337

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    150

    762

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    A1—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; very bouldery loamy coarse sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P02945
    A2—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; extremely cobbly loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine to coarse roots; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P02946
    A3—43 to 76 centimeters (16.9 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; extremely cobbly loamy sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine to coarse roots; 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P02947
    2C—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; very gravelly loamy coarse sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 3.0 fine to coarse roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 00P02948