IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Jackrock
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2010NV033111
  • User Pedon ID: 2010NV033111
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2010NV033111
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0092
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58653
  • 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: 38.8825056
  • Std. Longitude: -115.3679361
  • 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 Lithic Xeric haplar Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Jackrock
  • PSC - 8 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/29/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Atlow
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from welded tuff
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Bedrock: indurated tuff, welded at 30cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 40.00 percent 2- to 75-millimeter 5.00 percent 250- to 400-millimeter 35.00 percent 75- to 250-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/12/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARAR8

    ARNO4

    ELEL5

    JUOS

    PIMO

    POA

    RIBES

    Artemisia arbuscula

    Artemisia nova

    Elymus elymoides

    Juniperus osteosperma

    Pinus monophylla

    Poa

    Ribes

    little sagebrush

    black sagebrush

    squirreltail

    Utah juniper

    singleleaf pinyon

    bluegrass

    currant

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    30 - 60

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—8

    8—30

    30—60

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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

    30

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    2270

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    195

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly sandy clay loam; 21 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N00448; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very gravelly sandy clay loam; 26 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N00449; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very gravelly sandy clay loam; 29 percent clay; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 11N00450; observed in pit, small
    R—30 to 60 centimeters (11.8 to 23.6 inches); bedrock; extremely high excavation difficulty; fragments.