IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Toem
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 68CA693-013
  • User Pedon ID: S68CA017023
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 68CA693-013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 68C0086
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42997
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 38.8976972
  • Std. Longitude: -119.9340250
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.7 miles east and 0.2 miles north of southwest corner sec. 12, T. 12 N., R. 18 E., 100 feet north of High Meadow Road, 4 miles south of Stateline.
  • Map Unit: 7531—Toem-Rock outcrop complex, 9 to 30 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA017—El Dorado
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LNL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, frigid, shallow Dystric Xeropsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Toem (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Toiyabe
  • Classificaton Date - 8/7/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: mountain
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/7/1968 (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

    PIJE

    Arctostaphylos patula

    Pinus jeffreyi

    greenleaf manzanita

    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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    2134

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    180

    889

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    5.6

    15.6

    -3.3

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    0 to 0 centimeters (0.0 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 68C0712; dry when described;
    A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly coarse sand; weak very fine and fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C0705; dry when described;
    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 68C0711; dry when described;
    O1—3 to 0 centimeters (1.2 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 68C0704; dry when described;. pine litter-undecomposed.
    A12—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly loamy coarse sand; weak fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C0706; dry when described;
    C1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly loamy coarse sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and medium and coarse roots and 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C0707; dry when described;
    C2—36 to 43 centimeters (14.2 to 16.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very gravelly coarse sand; single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and fine and medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 55 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C0708; dry when described;
    C3—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 68C0709; dry when described;. weathering granodiorite grus.
    C4—69 to 79 centimeters (27.2 to 31.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 68C0710; dry when described;. grus, less weathered than C3.