IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clanalpine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1980NV001002
  • User Pedon ID: 1980NV001002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0403
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49247
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 39.5911111
  • Std. Longitude: -117.5144444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20N
  • Range: 37E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet S and 1500 feet W of NW corner
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV001—Churchill

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. B. F. and G. A. R.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clanalpine
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clanalpine
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, tundra
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    45

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    2037

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    180

    36

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    1A 11—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; very stony loam; 14 percent clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P02220. few very fine roots
    1A 12—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; gravelly loam; 15 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P02221. common very fine and fine roots
    1B 1—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; cobbly loam; 19 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P02222. many very fine roots; many coarse roots
    1B 21—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, moist; very gravelly loam; 24 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 coarse roots; 5.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P02223. many very fine roots; many coarse roots
    1B 22t—48 to 89 centimeters (18.9 to 35.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, moist; very cobbly loam; 24 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 40 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P02224. few medium roots
    1R—89 to 170 centimeters (35.0 to 66.9 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled. Highly weathered rhyolite.