IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Typic Haplargids
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016CA051009
  • User Pedon ID: S2016CA051009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0547
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 37.5438200
  • Std. Longitude: -118.2836500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: California
  • County: CA051—Mono
  • MLRA: 29—Southern Nevada Basin and Range

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Chris Savastio, Matt Cole
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxon above family
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Typic Haplargids
  • PSC - 21 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/9/2016
  • Classifier - Chris Savastio
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from granite
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, center third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/19/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Chris Savastio, Matt Cole
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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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    250

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; very stony sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 7 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine irregular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter granite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-450-600 millimeter granite fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-50-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02790
    V—5 to 21 centimeters (2.0 to 8.3 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; very stony sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 10 percent clay; moderate thick platy structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine vesicular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-50-75 millimeter granite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-450-600 millimeter granite fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02791
    Bt1—21 to 50 centimeters (8.3 to 19.7 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), moist; extremely gravelly sandy clay loam; 60 percent sand; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine irregular pores; 20 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-450-600 millimeter granite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter granite fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-50-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02792
    Bt2—50 to 71 centimeters (19.7 to 28.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; very gravelly sandy clay loam; 65 percent sand; 25 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine irregular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 20 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-450-600 millimeter granite fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter granite fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-50-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02793
    Bt3—71 to 100 centimeters (28.0 to 39.4 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; very cobbly sandy clay loam; 60 percent sand; 21 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.8 medium roots throughout; 8.0 very fine irregular pores; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-450-600 millimeter granite fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter granite fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-50-75 millimeter granite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 17N02794