IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pookaloo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2010NV033433
  • User Pedon ID: 2010NV033433
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0089
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58650
  • 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: 39.5668333
  • Std. Longitude: -114.6073333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 18 feet west of NV778055-CWL
  • Map Unit: 1138—Pookaloo-Cavehill association
  • 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39114-E5—Kalamazoo Creek, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Curt Leet
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, frigid Lithic Calcixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pookaloo
  • Classificaton Date - 4/21/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pookaloo
  • Classificaton Date - 9/21/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium and/or residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, lower third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified
  • 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
    F028BY060NV PIMO-JUOS/ARNO4/PSSPS-ACHY

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/21/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • 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

    40

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    2206

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    135

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); moderately decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 11N00440
    Oa—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); highly decomposed plant material; fragments. Lab sample # 11N00441
    A—8 to 22 centimeters (3.1 to 8.7 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 11N00442