IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Black Butte
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2004NV003003
  • User Pedon ID: 04NV003003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2004NV003003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0772
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16906
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 36.6811104
  • Std. Longitude: -114.2847214
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14S
  • Range: 69E
  • Section: 33
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV003—Clark
  • MLRA: 30—Mojave Basin and Range

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Doug Merkler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Haplosalids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Black Butte
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Haplosalids
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/16/2003
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed overbank deposits
  • Landscape: flood plain alluvial plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/16/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Kind: microlow
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion gully
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    SALIC

    PROSO

    TAMAR2

    Salicornia

    Prosopis

    Tamarix

    pickleweed

    mesquite

    tamarisk

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

    salic horizon

    gypsic horizon

    0—32

    85—100

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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

    1

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    432

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    348

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    Az1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, moist; loam; 50 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 20 percent clay; strong very thick platy structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine vesicular and 2.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N04385; observed in pit, small
    Az2—5 to 21 centimeters (2.0 to 8.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, moist; stratified stratified silty clay loam to very fine sandy loam; 15 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 30 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 2.5 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 fine interstitial pores; 15 percent fine faint irregular very weakly coherent cemented salt masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N04386; observed in pit, small
    Byz—21 to 32 centimeters (8.3 to 12.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, moist; stratified stratified silty clay loam to very fine sandy loam; 15 percent sand; 56 percent silt; 29 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 2.5 medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 0.5 fine and medium tubular and 2.5 fine interstitial pores; 8 percent fine distinct spherical weakly coherent cemented gypsum masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04387; observed in pit, small
    2Byz1—32 to 60 centimeters (12.6 to 23.6 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, moist; loamy fine sand; 85 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 5 percent clay; 5 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) coarse distinct dendritic and 15 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) coarse prominent dendritic mottles; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 10.0 fine interstitial pores; 4 percent medium distinct spherical very weakly coherent cemented gypsum masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04388; observed in pit, small
    2Byz2—60 to 85 centimeters (23.6 to 33.5 inches);, brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, moist; loamy very fine sand; 85 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 5 percent clay; 4 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) coarse prominent dendritic mottles; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 10.0 very fine tubular and 10.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N04389; observed in pit, small
    2Byz3—85 to 100 centimeters (33.5 to 39.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, moist; very fine sandy loam; 80 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 10 percent clay; 15 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) coarse prominent dendritic mottles; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 8 percent fine distinct spherical weakly coherent cemented gypsum masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 04N04390; observed in pit, small
    3C1—100 to 145 centimeters (39.4 to 57.1 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, moist; stratified stratified very gravelly sand; 95 percent sand; 3 percent silt; 2 percent clay; 1 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) fine prominent dendritic mottles; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots; 10.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 04N04391; observed in pit, small
    3C2—145 to 170 centimeters (57.1 to 66.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4) crushed, reddish brown (5YR 5/4) crushed, moist; loamy fine sand; 85 percent sand; 10 percent silt; 5 percent clay; 5 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) medium distinct irregular mottles; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 04N04392; observed in pit, small