IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Inville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968CA017017
  • User Pedon ID: S1968CA017017
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1968CA017017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 68C0092
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43553
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 38.8963890
  • Std. Longitude: -119.9205551
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 0.2 mile northeast of south 1/4 corner
  • Location Description: three miles south of Bijou, 1/4 mile inside Forest Service boundary, 50 feet south of High Meadow Road, South Lake Tahoe.
  • 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: R. C. Huff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, frigid Dystric Xerochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Inville
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Inville
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landform: terrace
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1968 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    ARPA6

    CEPR

    PIJE

    Arctostaphylos patula

    Ceanothus prostratus

    Pinus jeffreyi

    greenleaf manzanita

    prostrate ceanothus

    Jeffrey pine

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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

    5

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    1981

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    0

    762

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    6.1

    16.1

    -2.8

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and medium and coarse roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C00748
    A2—13 to 46 centimeters (5.1 to 18.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and medium and coarse roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00749
    Bt1—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry; cobbly coarse sandy loam; massive; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine and medium roots; 1.0 very fine and fine tubular and 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00750
    Bt2—69 to 120 centimeters (27.2 to 47.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; massive; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine and medium roots; 1.0 very fine and fine tubular and 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00751
    Bqm—120 to 175 centimeters (47.2 to 68.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; very gravelly loamy sand; massive; very hard, very firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00752. roots are matted on 2 lenses about a foot apart; reddish yellow (7.5YR) blotches are not cemented.
    C—175 to 200 centimeters (68.9 to 78.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) and yellow (10YR 7/6), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; loamy sand; massive; soft, very friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 68C00753