IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kzin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984NV007110
  • User Pedon ID: 84NV007110
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0616
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54860
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 41.2871437
  • Std. Longitude: -114.3241882
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 39N
  • Range: 68E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: Approx 670 meters W and 60 meters S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Elko County, NV. North of Montello.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV007—Elko
  • MLRA: 25—Owyhee High Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Worrel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic, shallow Xeric Haplocalcids
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 110
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kzin
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic, shallow Xeric Haplocalcids
  • PSC - 0 to 25 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—10

    10—25

    25—56

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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

    19

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    1879

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    180

    30

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    9

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    9

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    1A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03435. Thin lime coats on rock fragments.; few very fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    1A2—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very gravelly loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 5.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03436. Roots: 3f; 2m and vf. Thin lime coats on rock fragments.; many fine roots; common very fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    1Bk—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very gravelly loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine to coarse roots and 2.5 fine and medium roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 5.5 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 84P03437. Roots: 2f,m; 1 co,vf. Thick lime coats on bottoms of rock fragments. Clear irregular boundary to Cr runs from 6 to 10 inches. 10% soft rock fragments.; common fine and medium roots; few very fine to coarse roots; effervescence is continuous
    1Cr—25 to 56 centimeters (9.8 to 22.0 inches); weathered bedrock; 2.5 fine and medium roots and 0.5 coarse roots; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 84P03438. Roots: 2 f.m; 1 co. Highly fractured soft puddingstone with 40% hard pebbles in tuff matrix with limestone, chert, quartzite and siltstone pebbles.; common fine and medium roots; few coarse roots; effervescence is continuous