IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Grandeposit
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2010NV033554
  • User Pedon ID: 2010NV033554
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2010NV033554
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 11N0087
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58648
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.5666944
  • Std. Longitude: -114.5873611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: on sidehill north of Campground up Kalamazoo Creek
  • Map Unit: 3264—Grandeposit-Rubble land-Realmcoy association
  • 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-E5—Kalamazoo Creek, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Curt Leet
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 54
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Grandeposit
  • Classificaton Date - 4/21/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Grandeposit
  • Classificaton Date - 8/10/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium and/or residuum weathered from quartzite
  • Landform: mountain
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Bedrock: indurated quartzite at 56cm
  • Surface Fragments: 30.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2- to 75-millimeter quartzite, 10.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter quartzite, 5.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 600- to 1000-millimeter quartzite, 20.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 75- to 250-millimeter quartzite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F028BY062NV PIMO-JUOS/ARTRV/PSSPS-ACTH7

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/10/2010 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    POFE

    PSSPS

    SIHY

    ARNO4

    PIMO

    JUOS

    Poa fendleriana

    Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. spicata

    Sitanion hystrix

    Artemisia nova

    Pinus monophylla

    Juniperus osteosperma

    muttongrass

    bluebunch wheatgrass

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    black sagebrush

    singleleaf pinyon

    Utah juniper

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    56 - 81

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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—18

    15—56

    56—81

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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

    32

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    2194.6

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    210

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; gravelly loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine interstitial and 1.0 medium interstitial and 2.0 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-5 millimeter quartzite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.8, pH meter, saturated paste; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N00432; observed in pit, small
    A2—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; very gravelly loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine interstitial and 1.0 medium interstitial and 2.0 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter quartzite fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-5 millimeter quartzite fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.1, pH meter, saturated paste; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N00433; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; extremely cobbly clay loam; 30 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 1.0 very fine interstitial and 1.0 medium interstitial and 1.0 fine interstitial pores; 3 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-5 millimeter quartzite fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter quartzite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 6.7, pH meter, saturated paste; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N00434; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) broken face, moist; extremely cobbly clay loam; 36 percent clay; strong coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very fine roots and 1.0 very coarse roots and 1.0 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots and 1.0 coarse roots; 1.0 very fine interstitial and 1.0 fine interstitial pores; 3 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-5 millimeter quartzite fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-?-75 millimeter quartzite fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-?-250 millimeter quartzite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly acid, pH 6.2, pH meter, saturated paste; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 11N00435; observed in pit, small
    R—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small