IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bulake
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980NV007806
  • User Pedon ID: 80NV007806
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0244
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49088
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 41.8735085
  • Std. Longitude: -116.3851089
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 46N
  • Range: 49E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: Near Duckl Valley junction Res.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV007—Elko

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. T.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, frigid Lithic Mollic Haploxeralfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 806
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bulake
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bulake
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, montmorillonitic, frigid Lithic Mollic Hap
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1980
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    15—48

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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

    3

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    1696

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    225

    30

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    1A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, dry; gravelly loam; 22 percent clay; moderate fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine vesicular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P01272. many very fine and fine roots
    1A12—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, dry; gravelly clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak fine platy structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P01273. common very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    1B21t—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, dry; clay loam; 38 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P01274. few very fine and fine roots
    1B22t—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, dry; clay; 55 percent clay; strong medium and coarse prismatic structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) skeletans over cutans on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P01275. common skeletans over cutans surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots
    1B23t—41 to 48 centimeters (16.1 to 18.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, dry; clay; 50 percent clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) skeletans over cutans on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P01276. 20% weathered coarse fragments and some silica flakes.; common skeletans over cutans surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots
    1R—48 to 53 centimeters (18.9 to 20.9 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled. Ryholite bedrock.