IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tallac
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99CA693-064
  • User Pedon ID: S99CA017025
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0301
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11816
  • 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: 38.9326861
  • Std. Longitude: -120.0621278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 7524—Tallac gravelly coarse sandy loam, moderately well drained, 0 to 5 percent slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LA
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Humic Dystroxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS-horizons copied from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 33
  • 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 - SND
  • Classificaton Date - 10/25/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/25/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 8
  • 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

    5

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    1916.9

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    228

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    Oe—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. No sample.
    A—4 to 10 centimeters (1.6 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; gravelly loamy sand; 80 percent sand; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 22 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P2200. Gvl. 2-5 mm: 9; Water Repel: Ext. High; Mst: DM.
    Bw1—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 9 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and fine roots; 19 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P2201. Gvl. 2-5 mm: 6; Water Repel: Ext. High; Mst: DM
    Bw2—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 9 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 very coarse roots and 3.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P2202. Gvl. 2-5 mm: 7; Water Repel: Mod. High; Mst: DM
    BC—51 to 99 centimeters (20.1 to 39.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very stony fine sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and fine roots; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 27 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P2203. Gvl. 2-5 mm: 8; Water Repel: 0; Mst: DM
    C1—99 to 122 centimeters (39.0 to 48.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), moist; very stony loamy fine sand; 85 percent sand; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and fine roots; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 29 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P2204. Gvl. 2-5 mm: 9; Water Repel: 0; Mst: DM
    C2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; very stony loamy fine sand; 85 percent sand; 8 percent clay; single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and fine roots and coarse roots; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 26 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P2205. Gvl. 2-5 mm:8; Water Repel: 0; Mst: DM
    C3—152 to 155 centimeters (59.8 to 61.0 inches); extremely gravelly sand; single grain; fragments. No sample.