IDENTIFIERS

  • User Site ID: Virginia Lakes Ridge SNOTEL
  • User Pedon ID: S2010CA051001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: Virginia Lakes Ridge SNOT
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0373
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 73096
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 38.0731111
  • Std. Longitude: -119.2343056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: California
  • County: CA051—Mono
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA729—Toiyabe National Forest Area, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: KV/EB
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: intermontane basin
  • Landform: moraine
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 45.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter 2.00 percent nonflat 250- to 600-millimeter 1.00 percent nonflat 600 5.00 percent nonflat 75- to 250-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/17/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 24
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CAREX

    PICO

    POA

    RIBES

    SYMPH

    Carex

    Pinus contorta

    Poa

    Ribes

    Symphoricarpos

    sedge

    lodgepole pine

    bluegrass

    currant

    snowberry

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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

    12

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    2574

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    30

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    846

    Virginia Lakes Ridge

    SNOTEL
    Oi—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N02000
    A1—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; common (3.0) very fine roots and common (3.0) fine roots; common (3.0) very fine tubular and common (3.0) very fine interstitial and common (3.0) fine tubular pores; 50 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N02001
    A2—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; common (3.0) very fine roots and common (3.0) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots; common (3.0) very fine tubular and common (3.0) very fine interstitial and common (3.0) fine tubular pores; 45 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N02002
    Bt1—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; sandy loam; 14 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; common (3.0) very fine roots and common (3.0) very coarse roots and many (21.0) medium roots and many (21.0) fine roots and common (3.0) coarse roots; common (3.0) very fine tubular and common (3.0) very fine interstitial pores; 55 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N02003
    Bt2—43 to 76 centimeters (16.9 to 29.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; sandy loam; 14 percent clay; structureless massive; very friable; common (3.0) very fine roots and common (3.0) very coarse roots and many (21.0) medium roots and common (3.0) coarse roots; common (3.0) very fine tubular and common (3.0) very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 55 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N02004
    Bt3—76 to 100 centimeters (29.9 to 39.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; sandy loam; 12 percent clay; structureless massive; few (0.5) very fine roots and few (0.5) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots; few (0.5) very fine interstitial and few (0.5) very fine tubular and few (0.5) fine tubular and few (0.5) fine interstitial and pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 55 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9. Lab sample # 11N02005