IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cassenai
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99CA693-032
  • User Pedon ID: S99CA017037
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0350
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11864
  • 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: 39.0187306
  • Std. Longitude: -120.1575389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 7489—Meeks gravelly loamy coarse sand, 30 to 70 percent slopes, rubbly
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: FFF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, frigid Dystric Xeropsamments
  • 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 #: 32
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cassenai
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Classificaton Date - 8/2/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/2/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 5
  • 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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    2124

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    Oi/Oe—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments.
    A—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; gravelly loamy sand; 85 percent sand; 3 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; 4.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 11 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P2462. Water State: DS; Hydrophobicity: >10 sec; 33& OM by sight volume.
    C1—8 to 33 centimeters (3.1 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly loamy coarse sand; 80 percent sand; 4 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; very fine roots and 1.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 24 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 00P2463. Water State: DS; Hydrophobicity: >10.
    C2—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly loamy coarse sand; 85 percent sand; 3 percent clay; weak very fine granular, and single grain; 1.0 very coarse roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 22 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 00P2464. Water State: DS; Hydrophobicity: 10 sec.
    C3—61 to 104 centimeters (24.0 to 40.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; gravelly loamy coarse sand; 85 percent sand; 4 percent clay; single grain; very coarse roots and 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots and 2.0 coarse roots; 22 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 00P2465. Water State: DS; Hydrophobicity: 2 sec.
    C4—104 centimeters (40.9 inches); fragments.