IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cavehill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2010NV033438
  • User Pedon ID: 2010NV033438
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2010NV033438
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0081
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58642
  • 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: 39.7046778
  • Std. Longitude: -114.6453833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Head of Mattier Creek, 20 feet below road
  • Country: US—United States
  • 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-F6—Mattier Creek, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MPC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, frigid Typic Calcixerolls
  • 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 - Cavehill
  • PSC - 10 to 56 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/29/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cavehill
  • Classificaton Date - 9/22/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from limestone over residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments: 45.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter 15.00 percent nonflat 75- to 250-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F028BY058NV PIMO-CELE3/ARTRV/PSSPS-POFE

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/22/2010 (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

    ACHY

    ARTRV

    JUOS

    PIMO

    PSSP6

    SYMPH

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana

    Juniperus osteosperma

    Pinus monophylla

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    Symphoricarpos

    Indian ricegrass

    mountain big sagebrush

    Utah juniper

    singleleaf pinyon

    bluebunch wheatgrass

    snowberry

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—10

    10—

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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

    53

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    150

    381

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak thin platy structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 medium roots; 2.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 2.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume flat 150-?-380 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N00408; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—10 to 24 centimeters (3.9 to 9.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 8 percent carbonate concretions around rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence.; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—24 to 46 centimeters (9.4 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; fine sandy loam; 10 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 medium roots; 2.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 2.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 5 percent carbonate concretions around rock fragments; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N00409; observed in pit, small