IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tahoe
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99CA017031
  • User Pedon ID: 99CA017031
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0344
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11858
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 38.9355295
  • Std. Longitude: -120.0557593
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Taylor Creek
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ET, PN-E, AW, FF
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tahoe
  • Classificaton Date - 1/22/2008
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Classificaton Date - 7/14/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/14/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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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    1902

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    13

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    473

    Fallen Leaf

    SNOTEL
    0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; gravelly loamy coarse sand; 85 percent sand; 2 percent clay; weak very thick platy parts to weak fine granular parts to single grain; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 00P2435. rock fragments: 5% organic matter; water repel: Highly >10s.; NaF: <9
    13 to 48 centimeters (5.1 to 18.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loamy coarse sand; 85 percent sand; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 00P2436. rock fragments: 5% organic matter; water repel: mod. high 7s.; NaF: <9
    48 to 91 centimeters (18.9 to 35.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; coarse sand; 95 percent sand; 0 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 00P2437. water repel: high >10s.; NaF: 10.5