IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Loray
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983NV007012
  • User Pedon ID: 83NV007012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0617
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54861
  • 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: 41.2502022
  • Std. Longitude: -114.1452942
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 39N
  • Range: 69E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: Approximately 565 meters W and 670 meters S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Elko County, NV.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV007—Elko
  • MLRA: 28B—Central Nevada Basin and Range

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Worrel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Durixerollic Calciorthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Loray
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Loray
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Torriorthent
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1983 (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

    0—13

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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

    33

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    1497

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    17

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    8

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    10

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    1A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; gravelly loam; moderate coarse platy, and weak very fine platy structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine vesicular pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P03439. common very fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    1A2—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; moderate very fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03440. Thin lime coats on bottom of pebbles.; common very fine roots; few fine and medium roots; effervescence is continuous
    1B—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03441. Thin lime coats on bottoms of pebbles.; common very fine roots; few fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    1C—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very gravelly fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03442. Thin lime coats on bottom of pebbles.; common very fine roots; few fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    2C1—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very gravelly loamy fine sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 84P03443. 1-2 mm lime pendants on botoms of pebbles, tops generally clean. 20% strong lime cementation. Weak lime cementation (30-50% discontinuous) about 1.5 inches or less thick, banded along lower horizon boundary and as vertical seams extending in; common very fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    2C2—53 to 86 centimeters (20.9 to 33.9 inches); extremely gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 75 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 84P03444. 1-2 mm lime pendants bottoms of pebbles/cobbles, tops generally clean.; common very fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    2C2—86 to 165 centimeters (33.9 to 65.0 inches); extremely gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 75 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 84P03445. 1-2 mm lime pendants bottoms of pebbles/cobbles, tops generally clean.; common very fine roots