IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sky
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 68CA693-015
  • User Pedon ID: S68CA061001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 68C0089
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43550
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.0982389
  • Std. Longitude: -120.1996333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 200 yards north of S1/4 corner, sec. 34, T. 15 N., R. 16 E. Compass bearing: S. 37 deg. W to Barker Peak, N 85 deg. to stanford Rock, 100 feet south of Blackwood Canyon Road.
  • Map Unit: 7231—Waca very gravelly medial coarse sandy loam, 9 to 30 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA061—Placer
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RCH
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Medial-skeletal, amorphic Humic Xeric Vitricryands
  • 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 - Sky
  • PSC - 5 to 96 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Waca
  • Classificaton Date - 8/6/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/6/1968 (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
    • 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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    2073

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    315

    1092

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    4.4

    15.6

    -4.4

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    A11—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; cobbly coarse sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 fine roots; 7 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 7 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C0728
    A—0 to 53 centimeters (0.0 to 20.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 68C0734
    O1+O2—5 to 0 centimeters (2.0 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 68C0727. fir litter and duff.
    A12—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 21.0 medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C0729
    AC—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak 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 fine interstitial pores; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C0730
    C1—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak 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 fine interstitial pores; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C0731
    C2—79 to 91 centimeters (31.1 to 35.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak 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 fine interstitial pores; 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 68C0732
    R—91 to 0 centimeters (35.8 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 68C0733. slightly weathered andesitic tuff, fractured, with some roots and soil in cracks.