IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ursine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977NV033001
  • User Pedon ID: 77NV033001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0138
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45147
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 38.9774437
  • Std. Longitude: -114.5472260
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 66E
  • Section: 15
  • Location Description: White Pine County, NV. Approx 53 km S of Ely Nevada via US Highway 93.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV033—White Pine
  • MLRA: 28A—Ancient Lake Bonneville

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. A. Naphan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic, shallow Calcic Petrocalcids
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ursine
  • Classificaton Date - 3/5/2003
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Snd
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    1860

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    1A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; gravelly very fine sandy loam; moderate fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00707. few medium and coarse roots
    1B11—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, moist; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 13 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00708. many very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    1B12—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; very gravelly silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 37 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P00709. common medium roots; many very fine roots
    2C1ca—33 to 46 centimeters (13.0 to 18.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, moist; very gravelly sandy loam; massive; very hard, firm, very sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 75 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P00710. few very fine and fine roots
    2C2cam—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior, very pale brown (10YR 8/3) interior, moist; weathered bedrock; massive; fragments. Lab sample # 78P00711. Extremely hard lime cemented hardpan. Massive with indurated continuous capping and material below plugged with lime. Cemented materials composed of about 70 to 80% gravels and cobbles.