IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pibler
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984NV007112
  • User Pedon ID: 84NV007112
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0614
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54858
  • Print Date: 5/15/2025

    • 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: 41.3315887
  • Std. Longitude: -114.2419662
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 40N
  • Range: 68E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: Approx. 260 meters W and 31 meters S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Elko County, NV, Approx 9 k NW of Montello.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV007—Elko
  • MLRA: 28B—Central Nevada Basin and Range

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Worrel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic, shallow Calcic Petrocalcids
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 112
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pibler
  • PSC - 0 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alzbad
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: intermontane basin
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: with 100 to <200
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1984 (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

    petrocalcic horizon

    0—10

    35—66

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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

    6

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    1635

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    180

    20

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    10

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    11

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    1A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; very gravelly loam; weak coarse platy, and moderate fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; 37 percent carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, lamotte-morgan; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03421. Thin lime coats on pebbles.; common lime or carbonate coats surface features on lower surfaces of peds or stones; common very fine roots; few fine roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 217434; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 217434
    1B1—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; gravelly silt loam; weak medium 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 interstitial and 0.5 fine discontinuous tubular pores; 37 percent carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, lamotte-morgan; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03422. Thin lime coats on pebbles.; common lime or carbonate coats surface features on lower surfaces of peds or stones; common very fine roots; few fine roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 217435; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 217435
    1B2—20 to 35 centimeters (7.9 to 13.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very gravelly 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; 37 percent carbonate coats on upper surfaces of peds or rocks; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, lamotte-morgan; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P03423. Thick lime pendants on bottoms of pebbles.; common lime or carbonate coats surface features on upper surfaces of peds or stones; common very fine roots; few fine roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 217436; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 217436
    2Bkm—35 to 66 centimeters (13.8 to 26.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), moist; unknown texture; extremely hard, extremely firm*; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03424. Indurated lime pan with 50% pebbles in matrix.
    2C1—66 to 109 centimeters (26.0 to 42.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very gravelly fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 37 percent carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 1 percent fine threadlike gypsum masses; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, lamotte-morgan; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03425. 20% discontinuous strong cementation; 10% weak discontinuous cementation. Thin lime coats on pebbles.; few fine masses of gypsum concentrations; common lime or carbonate coats surface features on lower surfaces of peds or stones; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 217437; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 217437
    2C2—109 to 153 centimeters (42.9 to 60.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; extremely gravelly loamy sand; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 37 percent carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 1 percent fine threadlike gypsum masses; 65 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, lamotte-morgan. Lab sample # 84P03426. Thin lime coats on pebbles.; few fine masses of gypsum concentrations; common lime or carbonate coats surface features on lower surfaces of peds or stones; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 217438; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 217438