IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Waca
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999CA061005
  • User Pedon ID: 99CA061005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0358
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11872
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 39.2177811
  • Std. Longitude: -120.1660156
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 9165—Sky-Melody complex, 30 to 50 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA061—Placer
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LA, FF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial-skeletal, glassy, frigid Humic Vitrixerands
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 40
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Waca
  • PSC - 3 to 61 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 - Medial, amorphic Typic Vitricryands
  • Classificaton Date - 8/3/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/3/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • 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

    40

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    2368

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    220

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Not sampled.
    A—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; ashy gravelly sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 5 percent clay; fine granular structure; 10.0 very fine roots; 22 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 00P2495. Water State: DM; NaF: 9.5; Hydrophobicity: >10 sec.
    AC—10 to 41 centimeters (3.9 to 16.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; ashy gravelly coarse sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 7 percent clay; fine granular structure; 1.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 0.2 fine roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 00P2496. Water State: DS; NaF: 10.5; Hydrophobicity: 1 sec.
    C—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; ashy gravelly sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 7 percent clay; 2.0 medium roots and 0.1 fine roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 00P2497. Water State: DS; NaF: 10.5; Hydrophobicity: very slight.
    Cr—56 to 61 centimeters (22.0 to 24.0 inches); fragments. Not sampled.
    R—61 centimeters (24.0 inches); fragments. Not sampled.