IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lahontan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1959NV001005
  • User Pedon ID: 1959NV001005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3208
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38337
  • 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: 39.3151111
  • Std. Longitude: -118.6502778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 30E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: about 150 feet west and 30 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: in the Lahontan Valley east of Carson Lake Pasture
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV001—Churchill
  • MLRA: 27—Fallon-Lovelock Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV603—Fallon-Fernley Area, Nevada, Parts of Churchill, Lyon, Storey and Washoe Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39118-C6—Carson Lake, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. N. Langan and M. A. Townsend
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, calcareous, mesic Vertic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lahontan (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lahontan
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey lacustrine deposits derived from basaltic-ash
  • Landform: lake plain
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    secondary carbonates

    endosaturation

    0—25

    25—53

    122—152

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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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    —

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    1192

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    10.6

    22.8

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; many (5.0) fine roots; common (2.0) fine tubular pores; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25093
    BCk—25 to 53 centimeters (9.8 to 20.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay; 1 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) fine and medium distinct and 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) coarse distinct mottles; weak fine and medium platy parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; common (4.0) fine roots; few (1.0) fine tubular pores; 20 percent pressure faces; 2 percent coarse distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25094
    C1—53 to 84 centimeters (20.9 to 33.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; 1 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) coarse prominent mottles; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; few (2.0) fine roots; few (1.0) fine tubular pores; 40 percent pressure faces; 2 percent coarse distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, manganese masses on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25095
    C2—84 to 130 centimeters (33.1 to 51.2 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; moderate very coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; few (2.0) fine roots; few (1.0) fine tubular pores; 2 percent medium prominent masses of oxidized iron on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly acid, pH 6.5, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25096
    C3—130 to 160 centimeters (51.2 to 63.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; 3 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; massive; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; few (2.0) fine roots; 10 percent fine prominent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 40A25097