IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kumiva
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1984NV027003
  • User Pedon ID: 1984NV027003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0622
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54866
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 40.2986111
  • Std. Longitude: -119.2477778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N
  • Range: 24E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 900 feet West, 2000 feet South of the Northeast corner
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV027—Pershing
  • MLRA: 27—Fallon-Lovelock Area

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Zielinski and Bowles
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Typic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kumiva
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kumiva
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: intermontane basin
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    0—15

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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

    2

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    1390

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    270

    150

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    11

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    1A 1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; strong coarse platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine vesicular and 5.5 medium vesicular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P3477. few very fine roots
    1A 2—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P3478. common very fine roots; few medium roots
    2C k—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P3479. many very fine roots; few medium roots
    3C k—25 to 53 centimeters (9.8 to 20.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam, very gravelly loamy coarse sand; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P3480. few lime or carbonate coats surface features on lower surfaces of peds or stones; many very fine roots; few medium roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 368941; patchy - phpvsfiid 368941
    4C k1—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P3481. many very fine roots; few fine roots
    4C k2—76 to 89 centimeters (29.9 to 35.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; sandy loam; massive; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P3482. 5 percent weak durinodes.; many very fine roots
    5C k—89 to 132 centimeters (35.0 to 52.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; gravelly fine sandy loam, gravelly coarse sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P3483. few lime or carbonate coats surface features on lower surfaces of peds or stones; common very fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 368942; patchy - phpvsfiid 368942
    6C k—132 to 165 centimeters (52.0 to 65.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 84P3484. common very fine roots