IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zark
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983NV007058
  • User Pedon ID: 83NV007058
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0612
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54856
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 41.9143600
  • Std. Longitude: -114.1941910
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 47N
  • Range: 69E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: Approximately 615 meters E and 615 meters S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Elko County, NV, Goose CR.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV007—Elko
  • MLRA: 25—Owyhee High Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Bowermand and Staidl
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy, glassy, mesic Vitrandic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 58
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Zark
  • PSC - 25 to 90 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zark
  • Taxonomic Class - Ashy, mesic Mollic Vitrandept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1983
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1983 (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

    mollic epipedon

    paralithic contact

    0—31

    90—112

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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

    5

    —

    —

    1697

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    0

    30

    —

    —

    8

    —

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    9

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    1A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; gravelly loamy fine sand; 5 percent clay; weak coarse platy structure; soft, very friable, weakly cemented by silica, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P03409. Less than 5% gravel.; common very fine roots; common very fine and fine roots
    1A2—10 to 31 centimeters (3.9 to 12.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loamy fine sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03410. common very fine roots; common fine roots
    1Bq1—31 to 63 centimeters (12.2 to 24.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; loamy fine sand; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent medium cylindrical durinodes; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03411. 40% weak silica cementation with 5% 1 to 5 cm durinodes.; few medium durinodes concentrations; few very fine and fine roots
    1Bq2—63 to 90 centimeters (24.8 to 35.4 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; gravelly loamy fine sand; massive; hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine discontinuous tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03412. Weak, continuous silica cementation.; few very fine roots
    1Cr—90 to 112 centimeters (35.4 to 44.1 inches); gray (10YR 6/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; unknown texture; 1 percent fine irregular lime masses; fragments. Lab sample # 84P03413. Very soft ashy tuffs, small pockets of lime.; few fine soft masses of lime concentrations