IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mountrose
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99CA693-037
  • User Pedon ID: S99CA061009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0355
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11869
  • Print Date: 2/2/2025

    • 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: 38.1450028
  • Std. Longitude: -120.2351361
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: utm's derived from drg's in arcmap
  • Map Unit: 9171—Mountrose-Wardcreek-Melody complex, 50 to 70 percent slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: FFF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, amorphic Typic Haplocryands
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 37
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mountrose
  • PSC - 3 to 103 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 - 7/27/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/27/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 2
  • 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

    18

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    65

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments. Not sampled.
    A1—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; gravelly sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 10 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 33 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 00P2483. Hydrophobicity: >10 sec.
    Bw—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; gravelly sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 10 percent clay; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 29 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 00P2484
    BC—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; gravelly sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 11 percent clay; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 29 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 00P2485
    C1—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 10 percent clay; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 00P2486
    C2—76 to 112 centimeters (29.9 to 44.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; very cobbly sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 10 percent clay; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 22 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 00P2487