IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bluewing
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008NV027253
  • User Pedon ID: 2008NV027253
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2008NV027253
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0494
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20055
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 40.0495278
  • Std. Longitude: -118.6644167
  • 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-A6—Toulon Peak, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ewb, jbf, sch, amb
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy-skeletal, mixed, 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 - Bluewing
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bluewing
  • Classificaton Date - 5/6/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: fan piedmont
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Drainage Class: well
  • 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
    R027XY018NV GRAVELLY LOAM 4-8 P.Z.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/6/2008 (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

    PIDE4

    Sarcobatus vermiculatus

    Picrothamnus desertorum

    greasewood

    bud sagebrush

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

    ochric epipedon

    secondary carbonates

    0—15

    15—152

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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

    4

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    125

    150

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    120

    12

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    13.5

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; gravelly fine sandy loam; 11 percent clay; moderate thick platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.4 very fine roots; 2.0 very fine vesicular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A2—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 13 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots; 6.0 very fine interstitial and 2.0 very fine tubular pores; 40 percent by volume 2-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; very gravelly loamy sand; 8 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots; 6.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fine carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments; 50 percent by volume 2-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—38 to 66 centimeters (15.0 to 26.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; very gravelly sand; 6 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.4 very fine roots; 6.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fine carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments; 50 percent by volume 2-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bkq1—66 to 104 centimeters (26.0 to 40.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; extremely gravelly coarse sand; 5 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.4 very fine roots; 6.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fine carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments and fine opal on bottom of rock fragments; 65 percent by volume 2-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bkq2—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; extremely gravelly coarse sand; 5 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.4 very fine roots; 6.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fine carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments and fine opal on bottom of rock fragments; 70 percent by volume 2-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7.; observed in pit, small