IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Canisrocks
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • Local Phase: whitebark
  • User Site ID: S2012CA7921063
  • User Pedon ID: S2012CA7921063
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2012CA7921063
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 18N0947
  • Print Date: 4/22/2026

    • 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: 37.1056037
  • Std. Longitude: -118.5669137
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9.5S
  • Range: 31E
  • Section: 35
  • State: California
  • County: CA019—Fresno
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA792—Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37118-A5—North Palisade, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Chris Savastio
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, isotic Typic Cryorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Canisrocks
  • PSC - 29 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/16/2016
  • Classifier - Chris Savastio
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from granite
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, center third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 50.00 percent nonflat indurated 601- to 3000-millimeter granite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R022AA101CA Sandy Very Deep Alpine Mountain Slopes May 13 2015
  • Ecological State: 1 -
  • Community Phase: 1 -
  • Vegplot Text Note(s): whitebark pine (PIAL)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/28/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    CARO5

    ELEL5

    ERDI14

    LIPU11

    PIAL

    PIAL

    RICE

    Carex rossii

    Elymus elymoides

    Ericameria discoidea

    Linanthus pungens

    Pinus albicaulis

    Pinus albicaulis

    Ribes cereum

    Ross' sedge

    squirreltail

    whitestem goldenbush

    granite prickly phlox

    whitebark pine

    whitebark pine

    wax currant

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—11

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    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

    60

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    3694

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    110

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    Oi—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.8, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described;
    A—4 to 11 centimeters (1.6 to 4.3 inches); very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), gray (2.5Y 6/1), dry; fine sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 2 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, pH indicator solutions; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N03537; dry when described;
    C1—11 to 32 centimeters (4.3 to 12.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), dry; sand; 88 percent sand; 1 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-5 millimeter granite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N03538; dry when described;
    C2—32 to 49 centimeters (12.6 to 19.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), dry; loamy sand; 85 percent sand; 3 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; 4 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-5 millimeter granite fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 251-?-600 millimeter granite fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, pH indicator solutions; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 18N03539; dry when described;
    C3—49 to 73 centimeters (19.3 to 28.7 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), dry; very bouldery sand; 88 percent sand; 2 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.8 fine roots; 3.0 very fine irregular pores; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-20 millimeter granite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 251-?-600 millimeter granite fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 601-?-3000 millimeter granite fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, pH indicator solutions. Lab sample # 18N03540; dry when described;