IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hunnton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979NV007500
  • User Pedon ID: 79NV007500
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0257
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46990
  • Print Date: 4/18/2025

    • 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: 40.2905540
  • Std. Longitude: -115.6641693
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N
  • Range: 56E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 274 meters W and 292 meters S of the NE corner
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV007—Elko

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Xerollic Nadurargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 500
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hunnton
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hunnton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Xerollic Nadurargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1979
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1979 (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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    3

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    1825

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    270

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    1A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dry; silt loam; weak fine platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01354. common very fine and fine roots
    1B1t—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 15 percent clay films on nodules; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01355. few clay films surface features on nodules; common very fine and fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 214151; patchy - phpvsfiid 214151
    1B21t—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; clay; strong medium prismatic structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 fine and medium interstitial pores; pressure faces on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01356. many very fine and fine roots
    1B22tca—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; clay; strong medium prismatic structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01357. Common fine seams of soft lime between peds.; many very fine and fine roots
    1C1sicam—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) interior, very pale brown (10YR 8/4) interior, dry; gravelly clay loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01358. Few hard pan fragments. Some soft lime concretions.; few fine roots
    2C2sicam—76 to 122 centimeters (29.9 to 48.0 inches); unknown texture; fragments. Lab sample # 79P01359. Indurated duripan continuous thin and very thin opal coating the top surface. Very wavy top surface.