IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Granshaw
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1984NV027004
  • User Pedon ID: 1984NV027004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0623
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54867
  • 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: 40.1338889
  • Std. Longitude: -119.0333333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26N
  • Range: 26E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 2400 feet South, 500 feet West 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, mesic Typic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Granshaw
  • PSC - 10 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Granshan
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1984
  • 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: 4/1/1984 (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

    argillic horizon

    0—10

    10—43

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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

    5

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    1308

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    90

    130

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    12

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    1A 1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 medium vesicular and 5.5 fine vesicular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P3485. few fine roots
    1A 2—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 medium vesicular and 5.5 fine vesicular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P3486. few fine roots
    1B t1—10 to 36 centimeters (3.9 to 14.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; coarse sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 fine continuous tubular pores; 15 percent clay films between sand grains and 15 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P3487. few clay films surface features between sand grains; few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; many very fine roots; few medium roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 368943; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 368943
    1B t2—36 to 43 centimeters (14.2 to 16.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; coarse sandy loam; massive; hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine continuous tubular pores; 15 percent clay films between sand grains and 15 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P3488. few clay films surface features between sand grains; few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; common very fine roots; few fine roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 368945; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 368945
    1B tk—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; gravelly loamy sand; massive; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine interstitial and 0.5 fine continuous tubular pores; 15 percent clay films between sand grains; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P3489. few clay films surface features between sand grains; few very fine roots; few fine roots; effervescence is discontinuous; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 368947; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 368947
    1B k1—66 to 89 centimeters (26.0 to 35.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P3490. common very fine roots; effervescence is discontinuous
    1B k2—89 to 137 centimeters (35.0 to 53.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P3491. common very fine roots; few fine roots; effervescence is discontinuous
    1C—137 to 165 centimeters (53.9 to 65.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; very gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 84P3492. few fine roots