IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sky
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99CA693-041
  • User Pedon ID: S99CA061006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0359
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11873
  • 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: 39.0817111
  • Std. Longitude: -120.2342000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: utm's derived from drg's in arcmap
  • Map Unit: 9142—Melody-Rock Outcrop complex, 30 to 50 percent slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: FFF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic Vitrandic Dystrocryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 41
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sky
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Classificaton Date - 7/21/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/21/1999 (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

    17

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    2219

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    40

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    Oi—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Not sampled.
    Oe—1 to 4 centimeters (0.4 to 1.6 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. Not sampled.
    Oa—4 to 5 centimeters (1.6 to 2.0 inches); highly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Not sampled.
    A—5 to 9 centimeters (2.0 to 3.5 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; gravelly sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 5 percent clay; weak very fine and fine granular, and weak thick platy, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine roots; 27 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P2498. rock fragments 20% o.m. by visual volume; Water State: MM; Hydrophobicity: >10 s.
    Bw1—9 to 25 centimeters (3.5 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; gravelly sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 7 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak very fine and fine granular structure; friable; 0.2 very fine roots and 2.0 very coarse roots and 2.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P2499. Water State: MM; Hydrophobicity: <1 sec.
    Bw2—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; gravelly sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 8 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine and fine granular, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 very fine roots and 0.5 very coarse roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.2 fine roots; 24 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 00P2500. Water State: MM.
    BC—48 to 112 centimeters (18.9 to 44.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; gravelly sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 9 percent clay; 24 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 00P2501