IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sirretta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999CA017040
  • User Pedon ID: 99CA017040
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0353
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11867
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 38.8973312
  • Std. Longitude: -120.0146255
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 7413—Cagwin Rock outcrop complex, 30 to 50 percent slopes, extremely stony
  • State: California
  • County: CA017—El Dorado
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: FFF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Dystric Xerorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 35
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sirretta
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, isotic Vitrandic Xerorthents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/28/1999
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: mountain
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Bedrock: granite
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/28/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    45

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    1969

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    320

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    Oi—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Not sampled.
    A1—2 to 4 centimeters (0.8 to 1.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; gravelly loamy coarse sand; 80 percent sand; 3 percent clay; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular 75-162-250 millimeter granitoid fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter granitoid fragments and 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-39-75 millimeter granitoid fragments. Lab sample # 00P2475. Hydrophobicity: >10 sec.
    Bw1—4 to 13 centimeters (1.6 to 5.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; very stony loamy coarse sand; 80 percent sand; 6 percent clay; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 7 percent by volume nonflat subangular 75-162-250 millimeter granitoid fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter granitoid fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-39-75 millimeter granitoid fragments. Lab sample # 00P2476. Hydrophobicity: >10 sec.
    Bw2—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; very stony loamy coarse sand; 80 percent sand; 6 percent clay; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 7 percent by volume nonflat subangular 75-162-250 millimeter granitoid fragments and 7 percent by volume flat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter granitoid fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat subangular 2-39-75 millimeter granitoid fragments. Lab sample # 00P2477. Hydrophobicity: >10 sec.
    C1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very stony loamy coarse sand; 85 percent sand; 4 percent clay; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 7 percent by volume nonflat angular 75-162-250 millimeter granitoid fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter granitoid fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-39-75 millimeter granitoid fragments. Lab sample # 00P2478. Hydrophobicity: 6 sec.
    C2—38 to 74 centimeters (15.0 to 29.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; extremely stony loamy coarse sand; 85 percent sand; 3 percent clay; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 7 percent by volume nonflat angular 75-162-250 millimeter granitoid fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-39-75 millimeter granitoid fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat angular 250-425-600 millimeter granitoid fragments. Lab sample # 00P2479
    C3—74 to 99 centimeters (29.1 to 39.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; extremely stony loamy coarse sand; 90 percent sand; 2 percent clay; 2 percent by volume nonflat angular 2-39-75 millimeter granitoid fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat subangular 75-162-250 millimeter granitoid fragments and 60 percent by volume nonflat subangular 250-425-600 millimeter granitoid fragments. Not sampled.
    Cr—99 centimeters (39.0 inches); fragments. Not sampled.