IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): DOWNEYVILLE
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1972NV001001
  • User Pedon ID: 1972NV001001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1972NV001001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 72C0011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43945
  • 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: 39.0833333
  • Std. Longitude: -118.1291667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 34E
  • Section: 15
  • Location Description: Churchill County, Nevada; about 3 miles southeast of Slate Mountain
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV001—Churchill
  • MLRA: 27—Fallon-Lovelock Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV770—Churchill County Area, Nevada, Parts of Churchill and Lyon Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. B. Alexander and E. L. Spencer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Haplargids
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - DOWNEYVILLE
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lithic Haplargid
  • Classificaton Date - 4/24/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/24/1972 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 17365
  • 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

    EPHED

    Ephedra

    jointfir

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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

    18

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    1600

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    113

    127

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    11

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    A1—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine vesicular and 3.0 medium vesicular pores; 25 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 72C00070
    A3—6 to 12 centimeters (2.4 to 4.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; gravelly loam; weak thin platy, and weak medium platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; 10 percent clay bridges on bottom faces of peds; 25 percent by volume 2-?-25 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 72C00071
    B2t—12 to 22 centimeters (4.7 to 8.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; very gravelly sandy clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 30 percent clay films on surfaces along pores and 75 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 50 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, thymol-blue; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 72C00072
    R—22 to 50 centimeters (8.7 to 19.7 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 72C00073