IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Temo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99CA693-055
  • User Pedon ID: S99CA017021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0297
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11812
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 38.7803861
  • Std. Longitude: -119.9833944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: utm's derived from drg's in arcmap. previously entered coordinates of 38 45 36.2n and 120 1 3.11w are assumed to be incorrect. Same coordinates as for 99ca693-054 yet those two notes are on different field sheets
  • Map Unit: 9451—Waterpeak-Rock outcrop complex, 30 to 75 percent slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ET
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, shallow Typic Cryopsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 18
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Temo
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Classificaton Date - 11/2/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Bedrock: granite at 46cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/2/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 11
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • 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

    45

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    2585

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    220

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); gravelly coarse sand; 3 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine roots and 4.0 fine roots; 25 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter granite fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); very gravelly coarse sand; 5 percent clay; massive; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume 75-125-250 millimeter granite fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter granite fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); very gravelly coarse sand; 5 percent clay; massive; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 10 percent by volume 75-125-250 millimeter granite fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter granite fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Cr—46 centimeters (18.1 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small