IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Callat
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 68CA693-011
  • User Pedon ID: S68CA017015
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 68CA693-011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 68C0084
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42995
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 38.9059222
  • Std. Longitude: -120.0473556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Near center of sec. 10, T. 12 N., R. 18 E., 100 feet west of Fallen Leaf Lake road. ***THE ABOVE SECTION TOWNSHIP AND RANGE DATA IS TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM THE ORIGINAL 232 YET ASSUMED TO BE IN ERROR. THE ABOVE DATA WOULD PLACE THIS SITE NEAR SIERRA HOUSE SCHOOL AND MILES AWAY FROM FALLEN LEAF LAKE RD. FOSTER FELL HAD MARKED ON A QUAD SHEET WHERE HE THOUGHT THE LOCATION OF THIS SITE IS AND THAT IS WHAT IS BEING USED FOR THE LOCATION.
  • Map Unit: 7525—Tallac gravelly coarse sandy loam, moderately well drained, 5 to 9 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA017—El Dorado
  • MLRA: 22—Sierra Nevada Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: GMK
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic Xeric Dystrocryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Callat
  • PSC - 25 to 95 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tallac Shallow
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/1967
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/26/1967 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    PIJE

    Pinus jeffreyi

    Jeffrey pine

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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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    1981

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    0

    940

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    5

    15.6

    -3.3

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; strong very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and medium and coarse roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C0693; dry when described;
    O2—4 to 0 centimeters (1.6 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 68C0692; dry when described;. not sampled.
    O1—8 to 4 centimeters (3.1 to 1.6 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 68C0691; dry when described;. not sampled.
    AC—13 to 63 centimeters (5.1 to 24.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and medium and coarse roots; 3.0 very fine and 21.0 very fine interstitial and fine and medium tubular pores; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C0694; dry when described;
    C1—63 to 97 centimeters (24.8 to 38.2 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; cobbly coarse sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and medium and coarse roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 26 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 26 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C0695; dry when described;
    C2SIM—97 to 150 centimeters (38.2 to 59.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; massive; extremely hard, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots and fine and medium roots; 29 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 29 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 68C0696; dry when described;