IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Placeritos
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1956NV027012
  • User Pedon ID: 1956NV027012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1956NV027012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3206
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38335
  • 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: 40.1713889
  • Std. Longitude: -118.4533333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 32E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: approximately 650 feet south and 1,200 feet east of the northwest sec. corner of sec. 31 in the NW1/4 NW1/4
  • Location Description: 0.5 mile south on Broadway from the Soil Conservation Service office, south 1 miles on Meridian Road, east 1.1 miles on gravel road with tree-row, cross bridge over canal; north on canal bank road 0.45 mile, east along irrigator road to the end of the field located on the C. F. Wendt Ranch. The owner and leasor, R. Meffley, are cooperators with the Big Meadow SCD. See aerial photography DED-3-147 for the 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 #: 12
  • 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 - 7/16/1956
  • 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

    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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    1221

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    102

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    11.1

    25

    -2.2

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    AP—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches);, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; silt loam; weak very coarse platy parts to weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25073
    C1—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches);, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A25074
    C2—36 to 63 centimeters (14.2 to 24.8 inches);, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; very fine sandy loam, fine sandy loam; massive, and moderate medium subangular blocky; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 fine and medium pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A25075
    C3—63 to 79 centimeters (24.8 to 31.1 inches);, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; silt loam; brown (7.5YR 4/4) mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky, and angular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25076
    2C4—79 to 104 centimeters (31.1 to 40.9 inches);, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; brown (7.5YR 4/4) mottles; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 fine pores; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25077
    3C5—104 to 132 centimeters (40.9 to 52.0 inches);, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; silt loam; brown (7.5YR 4/4) mottles; massive parts to weak medium prismatic; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 medium pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25078
    4C6—132 to 142 centimeters (52.0 to 55.9 inches);, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; clay; brown (7.5YR 4/4) mottles; weak and moderate prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine and medium pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25079
    5C7—142 to 170 centimeters (55.9 to 66.9 inches);, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; silt; brown (7.5YR 4/4) mottles; massive; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 medium pores; clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25080
    6C8—170 to 185 centimeters (66.9 to 72.8 inches);, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; clay; 3 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine mottles; moderate and strong medium angular blocky, and subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 fine and medium pores; 75 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25081
    6C9—185 to 201 centimeters (72.8 to 79.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25082
    7A'1—201 to 216 centimeters (79.1 to 85.0 inches);, black (10YR 2/1) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silty clay loam; 3 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) medium mottles; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 medium and 0.5 pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25083