IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tharpslog
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2014CA107006
  • User Pedon ID: S2014CA107006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2014CA107006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0494
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79636
  • 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: 36.4667333
  • Std. Longitude: -118.6770583
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: West of Attwell Creek and upslope from Mineral King Road.
  • State: California
  • County: CA107—Tulare
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA792—Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Cathy Scott
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, isotic, mesic Vitrandic Humixerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tharpslog
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, isotic, mesic Typic Humixerepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 28 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/25/2014
  • Classifier - Cathy Scott
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from granite and/or slope alluvium derived from granite
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, center third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 250- to 600-millimeter granite, 600 granite, 75- to 250-millimeter granite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F022AH102CA Cool Mesic Mountain Slopes Dec 1 2014 David Evans
  • Vegplot Text Note(s): white fir (ABCO), greenleaf manzanita (ARPA6), incense cedar (CADE27), deerbrush (CEIN3), whitethorn ceanothus (CECO), sugar pine (PILA)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/25/2014 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Cathy Scott
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - intermixed conifers and hardwoods
  • 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 % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    A1

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    BC2

    Cd1

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    28

    51

    69

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    78.4

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    6.4
    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

    A1

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    Bw1

    Bw2

    Bw3

    BC2

    Cd1

    Cd2

    3

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    9.8

    10.4

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    9.6

    9.1

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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 %

    A1

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    Bw1

    Bw2

    Bw3

    BC2

    Cd1

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    3

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABCO

    ABCO

    ABCO

    ABCO

    ABCO

    ABCO

    ARPA6

    ARPA6

    ARPA6

    BROMU

    CADE27

    CADE27

    CADE27

    CADE27

    CADE27

    CADE27

    CECO

    CECO

    CECO

    CEIN3

    CEIN3

    CEIN3

    CHFO

    JUNCU

    PHHA

    PILA

    PILA

    PILA

    PILA

    PILA

    PILA

    RIRO

    Abies concolor

    Abies concolor

    Abies concolor

    Abies concolor

    Abies concolor

    Abies concolor

    Arctostaphylos patula

    Arctostaphylos patula

    Arctostaphylos patula

    Bromus

    Calocedrus decurrens

    Calocedrus decurrens

    Calocedrus decurrens

    Calocedrus decurrens

    Calocedrus decurrens

    Calocedrus decurrens

    Ceanothus cordulatus

    Ceanothus cordulatus

    Ceanothus cordulatus

    Ceanothus integerrimus

    Ceanothus integerrimus

    Ceanothus integerrimus

    Chamaebatia foliolosa

    Juncus

    Phacelia hastata

    Pinus lambertiana

    Pinus lambertiana

    Pinus lambertiana

    Pinus lambertiana

    Pinus lambertiana

    Pinus lambertiana

    Ribes roezlii

    white fir

    white fir

    white fir

    white fir

    white fir

    white fir

    greenleaf manzanita

    greenleaf manzanita

    greenleaf manzanita

    brome

    incense cedar

    incense cedar

    incense cedar

    incense cedar

    incense cedar

    incense cedar

    whitethorn ceanothus

    whitethorn ceanothus

    whitethorn ceanothus

    deerbrush

    deerbrush

    deerbrush

    mountain misery

    rush

    silverleaf phacelia

    sugar pine

    sugar pine

    sugar pine

    sugar pine

    sugar pine

    sugar pine

    Sierra gooseberry

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
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    umbric epipedon

    densic contact

    3—51

    133—220

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    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    3/25/2014

    50

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    6.7
    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); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; very abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N02512; observed in pit, small
    A1—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; loamy coarse sand; 78 percent sand; 15 percent silt; 7 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine interstitial pores; 1 percent by volume subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8; very abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N02513; observed in pit, small
    A2—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; loamy coarse sand; 81 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 5.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 2 percent by volume subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N02514; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; loamy coarse sand; 82 percent sand; 14 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 very coarse roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 5.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 4 percent by volume subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N02515; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, moist; loamy coarse sand; 82 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 very coarse roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 5.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 7 percent by volume subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N02516; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—69 to 92 centimeters (27.2 to 36.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; loamy coarse sand; 81 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 very coarse roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 6.0 very fine interstitial pores; 8 percent by volume subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N02517; observed in pit, small
    BC2—92 to 133 centimeters (36.2 to 52.4 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, moist; loamy coarse sand; 81 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 7 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 6.0 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume subrounded indurated 2-5-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N02518; observed in pit, small
    Cd1—133 to 183 centimeters (52.4 to 72.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) broken face, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face, moist; loamy coarse sand; 81 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 6 percent clay; structureless massive; moderately hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very coarse roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 5.0 very fine interstitial pores; 7 percent by volume subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent; strongly acid, pH 5.2. Lab sample # 15N02519; observed in pit, small
    Cd2—183 to 220 centimeters (72.0 to 86.6 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) broken face, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) broken face, moist; loamy coarse sand; 83 percent sand; 12 percent silt; 5 percent clay; nonsticky, nonplastic; 10 percent by volume subangular weakly coherent cemented 2-5-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # 15N02520; observed in auger, bucket