IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aspocket
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 12CA729001-EWB
  • User Pedon ID: S2012CA003001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 12CA729001-EWB
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0359
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71641
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 38.6681869
  • Std. Longitude: -119.6098494
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: California
  • County: CA003—Alpine
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA729—Toiyabe National Forest Area, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ed Blake
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive Pachic Argicryolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Aspocket
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive Pachic Argicryolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 14 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/26/2012
  • Classifier - Matt Cole
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from volcanic rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F022AY103NV POTR5/SYMPH/BRMA4 Sep 26 2012

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/25/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub 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

    POTR5

    Populus tremuloides

    quaking aspen

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—114

    14—114

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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

    8

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    2533

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    330

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    633

    Monitor Pass

    SNOTEL
    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; gravelly sandy loam; 12 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; many (3.0) very fine roots and common (2.0) fine roots and common roots; many (3.0) very fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N01042; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—14 to 32 centimeters (5.5 to 12.6 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry; gravelly loam; 27 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots and common (2.0) very coarse roots and common (2.0) medium roots and common (2.0) coarse roots; common (2.0) very fine interstitial and common (2.0) very fine tubular pores; 3 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 3 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.5, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N01043; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—32 to 60 centimeters (12.6 to 23.6 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry; gravelly loam; 27 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots and few (0.5) very coarse roots and common (2.0) medium roots and common (2.0) fine roots and few (0.5) coarse roots; common (2.0) very fine interstitial and common (2.0) very fine tubular pores; 3 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 3 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.3, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N01044; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—60 to 84 centimeters (23.6 to 33.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry; gravelly loam; 25 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few (0.5) very fine roots and common (2.0) medium roots; common (2.0) very fine interstitial and common (2.0) very fine tubular pores; 3 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 3 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.3, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N01045; observed in pit, small
    Bt4—84 to 114 centimeters (33.1 to 44.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry; extremely cobbly loam; 27 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky, and strong medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few (0.5) very fine roots and common (2.0) medium roots; common (2.0) very fine interstitial and common (2.0) very fine tubular pores; 3 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 3 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.3, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 13N01046; observed in pit, small