IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Itca
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981NV015308
  • User Pedon ID: 81NV015308
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0324
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50561
  • 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: 39.5171471
  • Std. Longitude: -116.7895279
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 46E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet S and 300 feet W of the NE corner
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV015—Lander
  • MLRA: 24—Humboldt Basin and Range Area

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: CEJ and EK
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Lithic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 308
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Itca
  • PSC - 18 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Itca
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, montmorillonitic, frigid Lithic A
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1981
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, tundra
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—43

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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

    40

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    2327

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    270

    28

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    5

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    1A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, dry; extremely stony loam; 11 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P01679. common very fine and fine roots
    1A2—13 to 18 centimeters (5.1 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; gravelly loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 fine and medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P01680. common fine and medium roots
    1Bt1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; very gravelly clay loam; 33 percent clay; 1 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) fine distinct mottles; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 37 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores and 55 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P01681. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; many clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine and fine roots; few coarse roots; few fine distinct 10YR22 mottles
    1Bt2—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; very gravelly clay; 43 percent clay; 1 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) fine distinct mottles; strong medium prismatic, and strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium and coarse roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P01682. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common medium and coarse roots; few very fine and fine roots; few fine distinct 10YR22 mottles
    1R—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches); 37 percent clay films; fragments. Not sampled. Hard rhyolitic tuff bedrock.; common clay films surface features