IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sondoa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008NV027252
  • User Pedon ID: 2008NV027252
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2008NV027252
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0492
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20053
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 40.0895278
  • Std. Longitude: -118.5800833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV027—Pershing
  • MLRA: 27—Fallon-Lovelock Area
  • Regional Office: 3obsolete—Reno, NV
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV761—Pershing County, Nevada, West Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40118-A5—Granite Point, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ewb, jbf, sch, amb
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Typic Torriorthents
  • 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 - Sondoa
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sondoa
  • 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
  • Drainage Class: well
  • 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

    redox concentrations

    salt accumulations

    0—10

    3—200

    10—122

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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

    1

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    1183

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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); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; strong thick platy structure; hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine and fine vesicular and 6.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A2—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine granular, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.4 very fine roots; 6.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent manganese masses; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bz1—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silt loam; 27 percent clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.4 very fine roots; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bz2—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.4 very fine roots; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bz3—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.4 very fine roots; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses and 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bz4—74 to 122 centimeters (29.1 to 48.0 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; strong medium and coarse angular blocky, and weak very coarse prismatic structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses and 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds and 10 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry, iron-manganese masses on surfaces along pores; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C1—122 to 167 centimeters (48.0 to 65.7 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; strong fine to coarse angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C2—167 to 188 centimeters (65.7 to 74.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silty clay; 45 percent clay; strong fine to coarse angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent fine dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C3—188 to 200 centimeters (74.0 to 78.7 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6.; observed in pit, small