IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Witefels
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99CA693-053
  • User Pedon ID: S99CA017019
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0295
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11810
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 38.7629583
  • Std. Longitude: -120.0189750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 7501—Rock Outcrop-Rockbound complex, 5 to 30 percent slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ET
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed Typic Cryopsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Witefels
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Classificaton Date - 11/3/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Bedrock: granite at 56cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/3/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10
  • 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

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); 10YR 2.5/1 (10YR 2.5/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; gravelly coarse sand; 5 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine roots; 25 percent by volume 2-25-75 millimeter granite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, bromcresol green; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); 10YR 2.5/2 (10YR 2.5/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; gravelly coarse sand; 5 percent clay; massive; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 7.0 very fine roots and 7.0 fine roots; 20 percent by volume 2-25-75 millimeter granite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, bromcresol green; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—25 to 56 centimeters (9.8 to 22.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), dry; gravelly loamy coarse sand; 7 percent clay; massive; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 25 percent by volume 2-25-75 millimeter granite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, bromcresol green; abrupt irregular boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Cr—56 centimeters (22.0 inches); fragments.