IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clanalpine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1980NV001016
  • User Pedon ID: 1980NV001016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0406
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49250
  • 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: 39.4319444
  • Std. Longitude: -117.7330556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 38E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet S and 1200 feet E of NW corner
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV001—Churchill

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. B. F. and T. B.
  • 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 #: 16
  • 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

    55

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    2257

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    45

    36

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    1A 11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; stony loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine interstitial pores; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P02239
    1O—3 to 0 centimeters (1.2 to 0.0 inches); undecomposed organic matter; fragments. Not sampled. Pine litter and duff.
    1A 12—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; stony loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P02239. few very fine and fine roots
    1A 13—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; cobbly loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 coarse roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 medium tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P02239. common very fine roots; common coarse roots
    1B 1—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; cobbly loam; 23 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 coarse roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 medium tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Not sampled.; common very fine roots; common coarse roots
    1B 21t—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; very gravelly loam; 25 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 coarse roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 medium tubular pores; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Not sampled.; common very fine roots; common coarse roots
    1B 22t—61 to 99 centimeters (24.0 to 39.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; extremely cobbly loam; 25 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 40 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Not sampled.; few very fine roots; few medium roots
    1C r—99 to 104 centimeters (39.0 to 40.9 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled. Weathered bedrock with few fine roots in pockets.