IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): CAGWIN
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968CA017024
  • User Pedon ID: S1968CA017024
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1968CA017024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 68C0073
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42984
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 38.8974991
  • Std. Longitude: -119.9344406
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 0.7 miles east and 0.2 miles north of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: 80 feet north of High Meadow Road, 4 miles south of Stateline.
  • 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: L. N. Langan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, frigid Dystric Xeropsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 24
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - CAGWIN
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cagwin
  • Classificaton Date - 8/8/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from intermediate igneous rock
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/8/1968 (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

    PIJE

    Arctostaphylos patula

    Pinus jeffreyi

    greenleaf manzanita

    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

    40

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    1981

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    225

    889

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    5.6

    15.6

    -3.3

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    O1+O2—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); muck; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C00584; dry when described;
    A—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 68C00592; dry when described;
    A11—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loamy coarse sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C00585; dry when described;
    A12—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loamy coarse sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00586; dry when described;
    AC—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loamy coarse sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00587; dry when described;
    C1—33 to 54 centimeters (13.0 to 21.3 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; coarse sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C00588; dry when described;
    C2—54 to 69 centimeters (21.3 to 27.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly coarse sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C00589; dry when described;
    C3—69 to 97 centimeters (27.2 to 38.2 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry; 0.1 very fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 68C00590; dry when described;
    C4—97 to 113 centimeters (38.2 to 44.5 inches); gray (10YR 6/1), very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry; fragments. Lab sample # 68C00591; dry when described;. less weathered grus.