IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Settlement
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1972NV001005
  • User Pedon ID: 1972NV001005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1972NV001005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 72C0015
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43949
  • Print Date: 2/7/2025

    • 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: 39.6958333
  • Std. Longitude: -118.0958333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21N
  • Range: 35E
  • Section: 7
  • Location Description: Churchill County, Nevada; about 1/2 mile north-northwest of Dixie Valley School
  • 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: Fine, smectitic, calcareous, mesic Aeric Halaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Settlement
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/8/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Typic Halaquept
  • Classificaton Date - 4/25/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/25/1972 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 14571
  • 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

    ATCO

    DISP

    ELYMU

    ERNA10

    SAVE4

    TEGL

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Distichlis spicata

    Elymus

    Ericameria nauseosa

    Sarcobatus vermiculatus

    Tetradymia glabrata

    shadscale saltbush

    saltgrass

    wildrye

    rubber rabbitbrush

    greasewood

    littleleaf horsebrush

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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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    1027

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    115

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    13

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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 8/3), dry; silty clay loam; weak thin platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 fine vesicular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 72C00094
    B21—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 8/3), dry; clay; strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 72C00095
    B22ca—15 to 31 centimeters (5.9 to 12.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.9, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 72C00096
    C1ca—31 to 60 centimeters (12.2 to 23.6 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silty clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 72C00097
    C2ca—60 to 100 centimeters (23.6 to 39.4 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silty clay; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 72C00098