IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Jackrock
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2010NV033439
  • User Pedon ID: 2010NV033439
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2010NV033439
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0093
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58654
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 38.8825000
  • Std. Longitude: -115.3680028
  • Datum: WGS84
  • 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: 38115-H3—Horse Track Spring, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MPC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, smectitic, frigid Lithic Argixerolls
  • 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 - Jackrock
  • PSC - 15 to 35 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/29/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Jackrock
  • Classificaton Date - 9/23/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from welded tuff
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: tuff, welded at 35cm
  • Surface Fragments: 45.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter 10.00 percent nonflat 250- to 600-millimeter 2.00 percent nonflat 600- to 1200-millimeter 10.00 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
    F028BY064NV Shallow Gravelly Mountains 12-16 P.Z

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/23/2010 (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

    ARAR8

    ARTRV

    ERIOG

    JUOS

    PIMO

    PSSP6

    Artemisia arbuscula

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana

    Eriogonum

    Juniperus osteosperma

    Pinus monophylla

    Pseudoroegneria spicata

    little sagebrush

    mountain big sagebrush

    buckwheat

    Utah juniper

    singleleaf pinyon

    bluebunch wheatgrass

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

    bedrock, lithic

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    35 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—35

    15—35

    35—

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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

    38

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    2259

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    180

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    O—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); ; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N00451; observed in pit, small
    A—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; sandy loam; 12 percent clay; moderate thick platy structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 medium roots; 2.0 very fine and fine vesicular and 2.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 2.0 medium vesicular and 2.0 medium interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N00452; observed in pit, small
    Bt—15 to 35 centimeters (5.9 to 13.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine and medium roots; 1.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 1.0 medium interstitial pores; 3 percent distinct clay bridges between sand grains; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Cr—35 centimeters (13.8 inches); ; fragments.; observed in pit, small