IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Parran
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008NV001003
  • User Pedon ID: 2008NV001003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2008NV001003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0488
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20049
  • Print Date: 1/28/2025

    • 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: 39.5490000
  • Std. Longitude: -119.0143333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV001—Churchill
  • MLRA: 27—Fallon-Lovelock Area
  • Regional Office: 3obsolete—Reno, NV
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV603—Fallon-Fernley Area, Nevada, Parts of Churchill, Lyon, Storey and Washoe Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39119-E1—Hazen, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: sch, jbf, ewb, amb
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Aquisalids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Parran
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Parran
  • Classificaton Date - 5/5/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: basin floor
  • Landform: lake terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R027XY025NV SODIC FLAT

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/5/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    SAVE4

    Sarcobatus vermiculatus

    greasewood

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    salt accumulations

    redox concentrations

    0—8

    8—130

    8—200

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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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    1217

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    150

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    120

    12.5

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    14

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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) rubbed, brown (10YR 5/3) rubbed, moist; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; strong medium platy structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 6.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.1; abrupt smooth boundary.; moderately moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) rubbed, brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed, moist; silty clay loam; 37 percent clay; strong fine granular structure; soft, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 6.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.1; abrupt smooth boundary.; moderately moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bz1—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) rubbed, brown (10YR 4/3) rubbed, moist; silty clay; 45 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 6.0 very fine interstitial and 0.4 fine tubular pores; 5 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses on faces of peds; 10 percent fine noncoherent cemented salt crystals between peds; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.9; clear smooth boundary.; moderately moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bz2—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) exterior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) rubbed, moist; silty clay; 45 percent clay; weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.4 fine tubular pores; 15 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses on faces of peds; 10 percent fine noncoherent cemented salt crystals between peds; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8; clear smooth boundary.; moderately moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bz3—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) exterior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) rubbed, moist; silty clay; 48 percent clay; moderate very thin platy, and moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.4 fine tubular pores; 25 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses on faces of peds; 10 percent fine noncoherent cemented salt crystals between peds; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8; clear smooth boundary.; moderately moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bz4—71 to 112 centimeters (28.0 to 44.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) exterior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) rubbed, moist; silty clay; 48 percent clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 fine and medium roots between peds; 0.4 fine tubular pores; 10 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses on faces of peds; fine shell fragments on faces of peds and 5 percent fine noncoherent cemented salt crystals between peds; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8; clear smooth boundary.; moderately moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bz5—112 to 130 centimeters (44.1 to 51.2 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) exterior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) rubbed, moist; clay; 55 percent clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.4 very fine roots; 0.4 fine tubular pores; 10 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses on faces of peds; 5 percent fine noncoherent cemented salt crystals between peds and 5 percent fine shell fragments in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8; clear smooth boundary.; moderately moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—130 to 166 centimeters (51.2 to 65.4 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) exterior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) rubbed, moist; silty clay; 45 percent clay; strong medium and coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.4 very fine roots; 0.4 fine tubular pores; 20 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2; clear smooth boundary.; moderately moist when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—166 to 200 centimeters (65.4 to 78.7 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) exterior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) rubbed, moist; clay; 52 percent clay; strong medium and coarse angular blocky, and strong coarse prismatic structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.4 very fine roots; 0.4 fine tubular pores; 10 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4.; moderately moist when described; observed in pit, small