IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wiskan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982NV027005
  • User Pedon ID: 82NV027005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0712
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51499
  • 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: 40.4225006
  • Std. Longitude: -118.1194458
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30N
  • Range: 34E
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 2200 feet W and 1000 feet N of SE corner
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV027—Pershing
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV769—Pershing County, Nevada, East Part

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Xerollic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wiskan
  • PSC - 23 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wiskan
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Xerollic Haplargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1982
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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—23

    23—84

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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

    15

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    1601

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    0

    28

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    6

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    7

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    1A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; gravelly loam; 35 percent sand; 43 percent silt; moderate fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine vesicular and 5.5 fine vesicular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P03740. 22% clay.; many very fine roots
    1A2—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; loam; 35 percent sand; 43 percent silt; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P03741. 22% clay.; many very fine roots; common fine roots
    1A3—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; loam; 33 percent sand; 43 percent silt; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P03742. 15% clay.; common very fine and fine roots; common medium roots
    1Bt1—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; very gravelly clay loam; 40 percent sand; 30 percent silt; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P03743. 30% clay. Common very thin lime coats on underside of less than 20 mm rock fragment.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine and fine roots
    1Bt2—69 to 84 centimeters (27.2 to 33.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy clay loam; 45 percent sand; 32 percent silt; massive; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P03744. 30% clay. Common very thin lime coats on undersides of less than 20 mm rock fragments.; few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; few very fine and fine roots
    1R—84 to 102 centimeters (33.1 to 40.2 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Fractured quartzite-like bedrock.