IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): segura
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2010NV023740
  • User Pedon ID: 2010NV023740
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2010NV033040
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 38.8243889
  • Std. Longitude: -115.2972833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV033—White Pine
  • MLRA: 28B—Central Nevada Basin and Range
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-ELK—Elko, Nevada
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV778—Humboldt National Forest, Nevada, South Part, Parts of Lincoln, Nye and White Pine Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Brien Park
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid, shallow Lithic Argixerolls
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - segura
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid, shallow Lithic Argixerolls
  • PSC - 5 to 55 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/7/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Bedrock: indurated tuff, welded at 36cm
  • Surface Fragments: 25.00 percent 2- to 75-millimeter 15.00 percent 250- to 400-millimeter 35.00 percent 75- to 250-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/7/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARTRV

    ERIOG

    JUOS

    PIMO

    PSSPS

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana

    Eriogonum

    Juniperus osteosperma

    Pinus monophylla

    Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. spicata

    mountain big sagebrush

    buckwheat

    Utah juniper

    singleleaf pinyon

    bluebunch wheatgrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    5—95

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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

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    2120

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments.
    Bt1—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); 5 percent clay films on surfaces along pores; fragments.
    Bt2—20 to 60 centimeters (7.9 to 23.6 inches); 15 percent faint clay films on bottom faces of peds; fragments.
    Btkq—60 to 95 centimeters (23.6 to 37.4 inches); 5 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 2 percent fine distinct irregular indurated cemented carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments and 3 percent fine prominent irregular indurated cemented silica concretions on bottom of rock fragments; fragments.