IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Trocken
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1972NV001003
  • User Pedon ID: 1972NV001003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1972NV001003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 72C0013
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43947
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 39.3500000
  • Std. Longitude: -118.1138889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 34E
  • Section: 11
  • Location Description: Churchill County, Nevada; in an unsurveyed township; about 2 miles north of Chalk Mountain in Fairview Valley
  • 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

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Fluventic Haplocambids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Trocken
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/29/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Duric Camborthid
  • Classificaton Date - 4/25/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/25/1972 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 13264
  • 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

    ARTR2

    ATCO

    PIDE4

    SAVE4

    Artemisia tridentata

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Picrothamnus desertorum

    Sarcobatus vermiculatus

    big sagebrush

    shadscale saltbush

    bud sagebrush

    greasewood

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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

    4

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    1335

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    225

    127

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    12

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    A1—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly sandy loam; massive, and weak thin platy; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine vesicular and 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 72C00078
    B21—7 to 16 centimeters (2.8 to 6.3 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 72C00079
    B22—16 to 27 centimeters (6.3 to 10.6 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 72C00080
    2C1sica—27 to 39 centimeters (10.6 to 15.4 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly sandy loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 21.0 fine and medium interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 72C00081
    2C2ca—39 to 58 centimeters (15.4 to 22.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 1 percent by volume 250-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 72C00082
    2C3sica—58 to 73 centimeters (22.8 to 28.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly loamy coarse sand; massive; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 fine and medium interstitial pores; 55 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 72C00083
    3C4—73 to 87 centimeters (28.7 to 34.3 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly loamy coarse sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 72C00084
    3C5—87 to 105 centimeters (34.3 to 41.3 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 72C00085
    4C6—105 to 135 centimeters (41.3 to 53.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 72C00086