IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tallac
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99CA693-001
  • User Pedon ID: S99CA017002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 99CA693-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0186
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11694
  • 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: 39.0465722
  • Std. Longitude: -120.1418528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • PLSS Details: Homewood
  • Location Description: Sugar Pine state park, 1.6 miles west of Highway 89 on General Creek
  • Map Unit: 7524—Tallac gravelly coarse sandy loam, moderately well drained, 0 to 5 percent slopes
  • County: CA017—El Dorado
  • MLRA: 22—Sierra Nevada Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: FFF, LA
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, frigid Humic Dystroxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tallac
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tallac "seeped"
  • Classificaton Date - 9/7/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy valley side alluvium derived from granodiorite
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Geology: Stream Terrace formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 25.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter granodiorite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/7/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • 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

    ARCTO3

    LUPIN

    PICO

    PIJE

    Arctostaphylos

    Lupinus

    Pinus contorta

    Pinus jeffreyi

    manzanita

    lupine

    lodgepole pine

    Jeffrey pine

    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

    1

    1950

    10

    12

    A—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 4 percent clay; moderate very fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots; 27 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter granodiorite fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; slightly dry when described; observed in trench. 10% partly decomposed
    Bw1—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), 2.5Y 2/2 (2.5Y 2/2), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 26 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 25 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter granodiorite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; slightly dry when described; observed in trench. 10% partly decomposed
    Bw2—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), moist; gravelly loamy sand; 80 percent sand; 16 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 25 percent by volume flat 2-?-75 millimeter granodiorite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in trench
    BC—38 to 74 centimeters (15.0 to 29.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; gravelly loamy sand; 80 percent sand; 13 percent silt; 7 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 very coarse roots and 3.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 32 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter granodiorite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; slightly moist when described; observed in trench
    C1—74 to 104 centimeters (29.1 to 40.9 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; very gravelly loamy sand; 87 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 3 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 37 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter granodiorite fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; moderately moist when described; observed in trench
    C2—104 to 137 centimeters (40.9 to 53.9 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; very gravelly loamy sand; 85 percent sand; 11 percent silt; 4 percent clay; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 32 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter granodiorite fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.; moderately moist when described; observed in trench
    Crx—137 to 155 centimeters (53.9 to 61.0 inches); structureless massive; silica present; fragments.; observed in trench