IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Meiss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99CA693-038
  • User Pedon ID: S99CA061010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0356
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11870
  • 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: 39.0831111
  • Std. Longitude: -120.2354639
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: utm's derived from drg's in arcmap
  • Map Unit: 9165—Sky-Melody 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: Coarse-loamy, isotic Lithic Dystrocryepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS-horizons copied from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 38
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Meiss
  • PSC - 0 to 30 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 - 7/22/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Bedrock: at 62cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/22/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 5
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    35

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    2286

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    175

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; gravelly sandy clay loam; 60 percent sand; 22 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots; 2 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 21 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P2488. Water State: DM.
    C—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; gravelly sandy clay loam; 60 percent sand; 23 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots and 0.8 medium roots and 0.2 fine roots; 7 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 17 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 00P2489. Water State: DS.
    R—30 centimeters (11.8 inches); fragments. Not sampled.