IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cleavage
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1982NV027006
  • User Pedon ID: 1982NV027006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0713
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51500
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 40.5602778
  • Std. Longitude: -117.9055556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31N
  • Range: 36E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 550 feet E and 2000 feet S of the NW corner
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV027—Pershing
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV769—Pershing County, Nevada, East Part

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Lithic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cleavage
  • PSC - 18 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/29/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cleavage
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1982
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—41

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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

    43

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    2166

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    315

    36

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    6

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    7

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    1A 1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; very gravelly loam; 40 percent sand; 42 percent silt; moderate fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine vesicular and 0.5 fine and medium vesicular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P3745. 18% clay.; few very fine roots
    1A 2—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; gravelly loam; 40 percent sand; 40 percent silt; weak fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P3746. 20% clay.; few medium roots; many very fine and fine roots
    1AB—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; very gravelly loam; 40 percent sand; 34 percent silt; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 82P3747. 26% clay.; many very fine roots; few fine and medium roots
    1B t2—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; extremely gravelly clay loam; 40 percent sand; 27 percent silt; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P3748. 33% clay.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots
    1R—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Quartzite and greenstone.