IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ellispeak
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99CA693-043
  • User Pedon ID: S99CA061008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0361
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11875
  • 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: 39.1140917
  • Std. Longitude: -120.1970028
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 16E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 1860 feet west and 900 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: utm's derived from drg's in arcmap, on hillside nirth of the road in blackwood canyon
  • Map Unit: 7122—Ellispeak-Rock outcrop complex, 30 to 50 percent slopes
  • State: California
  • County: CA061—Placer
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Regional Office: SW—Southwest
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39120-A2—Homewood, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ET
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, isotic, frigid Lithic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 43
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ellispeak (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 0 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/2/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from welded tuff over lahar
  • Landscape: Sierra Nevada mountains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent tuff, welded at 30cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R022AE217CA Frigid Volcanic Slopes

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/21/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 5
  • 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    30 -

    —
    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—30

    30—

    —-

    —-
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    6/21/1999

    30

    —

    17
    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

    49

    —

    —

    2134

    —

    205

    1778

    —

    50

    5

    13

    -2

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    Ward Creek #3

    SNOTEL
    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; stony loamy sand; 7 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 7.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter andesite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P2505; observed in pit, small
    A2—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very cobbly sandy loam; 8 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter andesite fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P2506; observed in pit, small
    Bw—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; extremely gravelly sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 250-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-162-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-39-75 millimeter andesite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P2507; observed in pit, small
    R—30 centimeters (11.8 inches); bedrock; impermeable permeability; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments.; observed in pit, small