IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wardcreek
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1999NV031016
  • User Pedon ID: 1999NV031016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0367
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11881
  • 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: 39.3186556
  • Std. Longitude: -119.9434583
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: utm's derived from drg's in arcmap
  • Map Unit: 9171—Mountrose-Wardcreek-Melody complex, 50 to 70 percent slopes
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV031—Washoe
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA693—Tahoe Basin Area, California and Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: FFF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy-skeletal, amorphic Humic Xeric Vitricryands
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 49
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wardcreek
  • PSC - 0 to cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/7/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - SND
  • Classificaton Date - 8/5/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/5/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 1
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    10

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    3018

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very gravelly sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 5 percent clay; moderate fine, and weak very fine granular, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 12 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 34 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 00P2537. Hydrophobicity: mod. high; roots: >20 vf, 5 f.
    A2—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 5 percent clay; moderate very fine, and weak very fine granular, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 12 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 26 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 00P2538. Hydrophobicity: 4 sec; roots: >20 vf, 5 f.
    A3—23 to 48 centimeters (9.1 to 18.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; very cobbly sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 5 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak very fine granular structure; friable; 2.0 very fine roots; 22 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 27 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 00P2539. Hydrophobicity: 1 sec.
    Ct—48 to 84 centimeters (18.9 to 33.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; extremely cobbly sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak very fine granular structure; friable; 0.1 very fine roots; 14 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 17 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 33 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 00P2540. Films: faint bridging on frags.