IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Toem
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 68CA693-002
  • User Pedon ID: S68CA017021
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 68CA693-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 68C0072
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42983
  • 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: 38.9010083
  • Std. Longitude: -120.0222111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N.
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 8
  • Location Description: Northwest corner of SW1/4 of sec. 8, T. 12 N., R. 18 E., 1/2 mile north of Tahoe Blvd., 50 feet east of old logging road on Tahoe Mountian.
  • Map Unit: 7412—Cagwin-Rock outcrop complex, 15 to 30 percent slopes, extremely stony
  • 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: LNL,GMK
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, frigid, shallow Typic Xerorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Toem
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cagwin
  • Classificaton Date - 8/5/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: mountain
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent granodiorite at 91cm
  • Geology: Kelg member.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/5/1968 (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

    ARPA6

    CEPR

    CHRYS15

    LUPIN

    PIJE

    Arctostaphylos patula

    Ceanothus prostratus

    Chrysolepis

    Lupinus

    Pinus jeffreyi

    greenleaf manzanita

    prostrate ceanothus

    chinquapin

    lupine

    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

    35

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    1996

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    90

    889

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    6.1

    16.1

    -3.3

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    A11—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loamy sand; moderate fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine and 1.0 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C0577; dry when described;
    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 68C0583; dry when described;
    O1—5 to 0 centimeters (2.0 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 68C0576; dry when described;. squaw carpet and pine needle litter.
    A12—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loamy sand; weak fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and 1.0 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C0578; dry when described;
    AC—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; loamy sand; weak fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and medium and coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and 1.0 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C0579; dry when described;. 5 percent fragments greater than 3 inches.
    C1—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and medium and coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and 1.0 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C0580; dry when described;. 5 percent fragments greater than 3 inches.
    C2—69 to 91 centimeters (27.2 to 35.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; gravelly coarse sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium and coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and 1.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C0581; dry when described;. 5 percent fragments greater than 3 inches.
    C3—91 to 120 centimeters (35.8 to 47.2 inches);, white (10YR 8/1) and very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry; massive; 1.0 very fine roots and fine and medium roots in cracks; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 68C0582; dry when described;