IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Duco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978NV005151
  • User Pedon ID: 78NV005151
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0589
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46143
  • 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: 38.8027763
  • Std. Longitude: -119.6194458
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: North of Double Springs flat.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV005—Douglas

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 151
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Duco
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Duco
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Lithic Argixeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1978
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Runoff: medium
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1978 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    15

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    1860

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    1A11—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; extremely stony loam; 60 percent sand; 25 percent silt; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine vesicular pores; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 50 percent by volume 600-?-? millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P03492. 15% clay; few very fine roots
    1A12—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; gravelly loam; 60 percent sand; 20 percent silt; strong very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 600-?-? millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03493. 20% clay; many very fine roots
    1B1t—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; gravelly loam; 55 percent sand; 20 percent silt; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; skeletans on nodules and skeletans in root channels and/or pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03494. 25% clay; common to many very fine and fine roots; common medium roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 228596; continuous - phpvsfiid 228597; continuous - phpvsfiid 228596; continuous - phpvsfiid 228597
    1B21t—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; very gravelly clay loam; 37 percent sand; 30 percent silt; strong coarse angular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 medium and coarse roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; clay films between sand grains and coats on bottoms of plates and skeletans on nodules; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 78P03495. 33% clay; few very fine and fine roots; few to common medium and coarse roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 213849; patchy - phpvsfiid 213850; continuous - phpvsfiid 213851; continuous - phpvsfiid 213849; patchy - phpvsfiid 213850; continuous - phpvsfiid 213851
    1B22t—38 to 46 centimeters (15.0 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; very stony clay loam; 43 percent sand; 20 percent silt; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 40 percent by volume 600-?-? millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 78P03496. 37% clay
    1R—46 to 51 centimeters (18.1 to 20.1 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled