IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Atlow
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982NV027007
  • User Pedon ID: 82NV027007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0714
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51501
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 40.6744461
  • Std. Longitude: -118.0483322
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 35E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 1900 feet W and 2300 feet N of the 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, mesic Lithic Xerollic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Atlow
  • PSC - 15 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Atlow
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Lithic Xerollic Hapla
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1982
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1982 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    15—36

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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

    35

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    1409

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    0

    20

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    8

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    9

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    1A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; very cobbly very fine sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 14 percent clay; moderate fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine vesicular and 0.5 fine and medium vesicular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P03749. many very fine roots
    1A2—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; very gravelly silt loam; 30 percent sand; 18 percent clay; weak fine platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P03750. many very fine roots; few fine roots
    1BA—18 to 23 centimeters (7.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; very gravelly silt loam; 30 percent sand; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P03751. common very fine roots; few fine roots
    1Bt—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; very gravelly clay loam; 35 percent sand; 34 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 82P03752. common very fine and fine roots
    1R—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Hard weathered quartzite with many prominent clay films in fractures and coating upper boundary.