IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Placeritos
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1956NV027011
  • User Pedon ID: 1956NV027011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1956NV027011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3205
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38334
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 40.1875000
  • Std. Longitude: -118.4563889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 31E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: approximately 30 feet west and 30 feet north of the SE sec. corner of sec. 23 in the SE 1/4
  • Location Description: 0.7 mile north on Broadway from the SCS Office, east on Airport Road 1/2 mile to site just inside field access gate located on the G. Suno Ranch. The owner is not a cooperator with the Big Meadow SCD. See aerial photography DED-3-150 for exact location.
  • 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, calcareous, mesic Aquic Xerofluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Placeritos
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2012
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Placeritos
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1956
  • 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: 7/1/1956 (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

    CHRYS9

    DISTI

    SARCO

    SPAI

    Chrysothamnus

    Distichlis

    Sarcobatus

    Sporobolus airoides

    rabbitbrush

    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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    1223

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    102

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    11.1

    25

    -2.2

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    AP—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; loam; massive parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots and 21.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3 percent worm casts; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25066
    C1—15 to 32 centimeters (5.9 to 12.6 inches);, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; silt loam; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25067
    C2—32 to 51 centimeters (12.6 to 20.1 inches);, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; fine sandy loam, very fine sandy loam; dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) and 21 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) fine mottles; massive parts to weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 1 percent worm casts and 3 percent fine and medium ; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25068
    2A'1—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; silty clay loam; dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) and 3 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) fine distinct mottles; massive parts to weak and moderate fine subangular blocky, and fine granular; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium and coarse roots and 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 medium pores; clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25069
    2C3—66 to 89 centimeters (26.0 to 35.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak and moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 medium pores; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25070. patchy - phpvsfiid 368807; patchy - phpvsfiid 368807
    3C4—89 to 109 centimeters (35.0 to 42.9 inches);, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; silt loam; dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) and 1 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) fine distinct mottles; massive; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3.0 fine pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25071
    3C5—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches);, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; 3 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) fine distinct mottles; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25072