IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rockbound
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99CA693-054
  • User Pedon ID: S99CA017020
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0296
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11811
  • 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: 38.7599111
  • Std. Longitude: -120.0185500
  • 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: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Lithic Xerorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rockbound
  • Classificaton Date - 4/28/2006
  • 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

  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Bedrock: granite at 38cm
  • 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

    50

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    2400

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    320

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; very gravelly coarse sand; 4 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine roots and 4.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume 75-125-250 millimeter granite fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter granite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry; extremely cobbly coarse sand; 4 percent clay; massive; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine roots and 4.0 fine roots; 6 percent by volume 250-400-600 millimeter granite fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter granite fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-125-250 millimeter granite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—13 to 43 centimeters (5.1 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; extremely cobbly coarse sand; 2 percent clay; massive; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots and 10.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 6 percent by volume 250-400-600 millimeter granite fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter granite fragments and 35 percent by volume 75-125-250 millimeter granite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    R—43 centimeters (16.9 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small