IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Slawha
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1956NV027001
  • User Pedon ID: 1956NV027001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1956NV027001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3207
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38336
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 40.1438889
  • Std. Longitude: -118.4686111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26N
  • Range: 31E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: approximately 2600 feet south and 425 feet west of the center
  • Location Description: 0.5 mile south on Broadway from the Soil Conservation Service office, south 1 miles on Meridian Road to east ranch road immediately south of Circle L Headquarters, east 0.5 mile, south 0.2 mile, turn west across bridge, south 0.3 mile—200 feet on ranch road, remainder along ditch bank (ranch road is on the east side of irrigation ditch), west .08 mile, then 20 paces north to site located on the Circle L ranch.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV027—Pershing
  • MLRA: 27—Fallon-Lovelock Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV602—Lovelock Area, Nevada, Parts of Pershing and Churchill Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Kubota and L. N. Langan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Aeric Fluvaquents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Slawha
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Unnamed
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/16/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    DISTI

    SARCO

    SPAI

    Distichlis

    Sarcobatus

    Sporobolus airoides

    saltgrass

    greasewood

    alkali sacaton

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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

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    1218

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    102

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    11.1

    25

    -2.2

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    AP—0 to 31 centimeters (0.0 to 12.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; silty clay loam; prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots and 3.0 coarse roots; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25084
    A12—31 to 56 centimeters (12.2 to 22.0 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and moderate and strong fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 medium and coarse roots and 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25085
    2C1—56 to 82 centimeters (22.0 to 32.3 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; silt loam; massive parts to weak fine subangular blocky; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 40A25086
    2C2—82 to 109 centimeters (32.3 to 42.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; silt loam; massive parts to moderate fine subangular blocky; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25087
    2C3—109 to 135 centimeters (42.9 to 53.1 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; massive parts to weak medium platy; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25088
    2C4—135 to 163 centimeters (53.1 to 64.2 inches);, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and angular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25089
    3C5—163 to 181 centimeters (64.2 to 71.3 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3), dry; silty clay loam; 21 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine and fine granular structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25090
    4A11B—181 to 201 centimeters (71.3 to 79.1 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dry; silty clay loam; massive parts to weak and moderate very fine and fine granular; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25091
    5A12B—201 to 231 centimeters (79.1 to 90.9 inches);, black (2.5Y 2/1) and black (5Y 2/2), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky parts to strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 fine pores; clay films on faces of peds and in root channels and/or pores; 1 percent worm nodules; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 40A25092