IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Temo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 68CA693-014
  • User Pedon ID: S68CA017031
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 68CA693-014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 68C0087
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 42998
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 38.9222000
  • Std. Longitude: -119.9342389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1.3 miles south and 0.8 mile east of northwest corner, sec. 1, T. 12 N., R. 18 E., 210 feet upslope from apex of swithback on access road to Heavenly Valley Ski Lodge.
  • Map Unit: 9442—Temo-Witefels complex, 15 to 30 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: LIL
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, shallow Typic Cryopsamments
  • 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 - Temo
  • PSC - 25 to 40 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Toem
  • Classificaton Date - 8/13/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/13/1968 (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

    PIMO3

    Pinus monticola

    western white 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

    14

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    2438

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    45

    1016

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    5

    15.6

    -3.9

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    A11—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loamy coarse sand; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C0713; dry when described;
    O1—1 to 0 centimeters (0.4 to 0.0 inches); fragments.; moist when described;. nearly continuous 01 horizon from manzanita litter at immediate site; in vicinity more than half of surface lacks a thin 0 horizon but has a thin coat of white fine gravel and coarse sand grains.
    A—3 to 25 centimeters (1.2 to 9.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 68C0720; dry when described;
    A12—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loamy coarse sand; weak fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C0714; dry when described;
    AC—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; loamy coarse sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C0715; dry when described;
    C1—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; coarse sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C0716; dry when described;
    C2—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light gray (5Y 7/2), dry; coarse sand; single grain; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C0717; dry when described;. has weak rock structure.
    C3—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); light gray (5Y 7/2), light gray (5Y 7/1), dry; coarse sand; massive; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C0718; dry when described;
    C4—61 to 99 centimeters (24.0 to 39.0 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2), white (5Y 8/1), dry; gravel; massive; hard when dry; 0.1 very fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 68C0719; dry when described;. gravelly grus, with black and white minerals.