IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hawsley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1959NV001008
  • User Pedon ID: 1959NV001008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1959NV001008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3214
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38343
  • 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: 39.5151111
  • Std. Longitude: -118.9980556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 27E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: approximately 500 feet S and 25 feet E of N1/4 corner
  • Location Description: Swingle Bench
  • 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-E8—Soda Lake West, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. N. Langan and M. A. Townsend
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Typic Torripsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hawsley
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hawes
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hummock
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ACHY

    DAHLI

    GRSP

    SALSO

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Dahlia

    Grayia spinosa

    Salsola

    Indian ricegrass

    dahlia

    spiny hopsage

    Russian thistle

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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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    1244

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    127

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    10.6

    22.8

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    C1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; sand; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky parts to single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; 0.0 pores; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25125
    C2—10 to 63 centimeters (3.9 to 24.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 pores; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25126
    C3—63 to 104 centimeters (24.8 to 40.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.0 pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25127
    2C4—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; coarse sand; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) coarse prominent mottles; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.0 roots; 0.0 pores; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 40A25128