IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tahoe
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99CA693-027
  • User Pedon ID: S99CA017032
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0345
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11859
  • 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: 38.9371944
  • Std. Longitude: -120.0560833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: utm's derived from drg's in arcmap
  • Map Unit: 7071—Watah peat, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ET
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • 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 #: 27
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tahoe
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Classificaton Date - 7/14/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/14/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 8
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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
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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; gravelly loam; 50 percent sand; 20 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 18 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P2438. Water repel: >10 sec. high; NaF: <9.
    A2—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; very gravelly fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 19 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots; 24 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P2439. Water repel: 4 sec. mod; NaF: <9.
    A3—13 to 53 centimeters (5.1 to 20.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; very gravelly sandy clay loam; 60 percent sand; 24 percent clay; weak fine and medium, and coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 24 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P2440. NaF: <9
    C1—53 to 61 centimeters (20.9 to 24.0 inches); very gravelly sandy clay loam; fragments. not sampled; too gravelly to auger.