IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Toomes
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961CA061001
  • User Pedon ID: S1961CA061001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1961CA061001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38131
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 38.8400002
  • Std. Longitude: -121.2866669
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4 SE1/4 SE1/4
  • Location Description: 5.5 miles north of Roseville, Whitney Ranch.
  • State: California
  • County: CA061—Placer
  • MLRA: 18—Sierra Nevada Foothills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA620—Placer County, California, Western Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Grant Kennedy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic Lithic Ruptic-Xerorthentic Xerochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Toomes
  • PSC - 25 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Toomes
  • Classificaton Date - 4/26/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hummock
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/26/1961 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    MEPO3

    Medicago polymorpha

    burclover

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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

    3

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    52

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    45

    610

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    16.1

    23.9

    7.8

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    A11—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) and black (10YR 2/1), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A23584
    A12—3 to 28 centimeters (1.2 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A23585
    R—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A23586. Andesitic breccia.