IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Meiss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99CA693-063
  • User Pedon ID: S99CA017024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0300
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11815
  • 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: 38.7360944
  • Std. Longitude: -120.0342139
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 9131—Lithnip-Meiss-Hawkinspeak association, 30 to 75 percent slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ET
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, isotic Humic Lithic Dystrocryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Meiss
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Meiss
  • Classificaton Date - 9/29/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Bedrock: andesite at 33cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/29/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10
  • 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

    25

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    2730

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    70

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; 8 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 15.0 very fine roots and 15.0 fine roots; 15 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter andesite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, chlorophenol red; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A2—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; 9 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 4.0 very fine roots and 4.0 fine roots; 25 percent by volume 2-50-75 millimeter andesite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    R—33 centimeters (13.0 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small