IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sky
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 68CA693-016
  • User Pedon ID: S68CA061002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 68CA693-016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 68C0090
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43551
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 39.0704667
  • Std. Longitude: -120.2296583
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: SE 1/4 of sec. 8, T. 14 N., R. 16 E., 0.4 mile east of Barker Pass, 70 feet south of Blackwood Canyon Road.
  • Map Unit: 9161—Sky gravelly sandy loam, 9 to 30 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA061—Placer
  • MLRA: 22—Sierra Nevada Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: GMK
  • 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 104 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: medium
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    TSME

    Tsuga mertensiana

    mountain hemlock

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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

    30

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    2377

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    0

    1194

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    3.9

    15

    -6.7

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    A11—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C0736; moist when described;
    A—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 68C0745
    A12—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; cobbly coarse sandy loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C0737; moist when described;
    O1—5 to 0 centimeters (2.0 to 0.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 68C0735; moist when described;. needle duff.
    A13—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), 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 3.0 medium and coarse roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C0738; moist when described;
    AC—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular and 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C0739; moist when described;
    C1—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and medium and coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C0740; moist when described;
    C2—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), dry; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and medium and coarse roots; 21.0 very fine and 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 68C0741; moist when described;
    C3—74 to 89 centimeters (29.1 to 35.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular and 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C0742; moist when described;
    C4—89 to 99 centimeters (35.0 to 39.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and reddish brown (5YR 4/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium and coarse roots and 0.5 fine roots; 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 68C0743; moist when described;
    R—99 to 100 centimeters (39.0 to 39.4 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 68C0744; moist when described;. andesitic tuff breccia.