IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mountrose
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999CA061018
  • User Pedon ID: S1999CA061018
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0369
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11883
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.1460037
  • Std. Longitude: -120.2352142
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 16E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 1680 feet north and 2200 feet west of the southeast corner of
  • Location Description: utm's derived from drg' in arcmap
  • Map Unit: 9171—Mountrose-Wardcreek-Melody complex, 50 to 70 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39120-B2—Tahoe City, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: FFF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial-skeletal, mixed Humic Xeric Vitricryands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 51
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mountrose
  • PSC - 3 to 103 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 - Loamy-skeletal, superactive Typic Cryorthents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/27/1999
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: mountain
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, upper third
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/27/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    A

    BC

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    3

    7

    119

    7

    23

    2547

    00P2545

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    A

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    3

    7

    119

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    23

    2547

    00P2545

    00P2546

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    9.8

    10.3

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

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    7

    119

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    23

    2547

    00P2545

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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

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. Not sampled.
    A—3 to 7 centimeters (1.2 to 2.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 9 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 33 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 00P2545. Hydrophobicity: High.
    BC—7 to 23 centimeters (2.8 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 9 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 27 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 00P2546. Hydrophobicity: slight.
    C—23 to 119 centimeters (9.1 to 46.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 8 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 8 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 27 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 00P2547