IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gravier
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984NV007113
  • User Pedon ID: 84NV007113
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0615
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54859
  • 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: 41.3457565
  • Std. Longitude: -114.2025146
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 40N
  • Range: 69E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: Approx 420 meters W and 170 meters N of the SE corner
  • Location Description: Elko County, NV. Approx 1.6 k SW of Gamble Ranch.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV007—Elko
  • MLRA: 28A—Ancient Lake Bonneville

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Worrel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Typic Torrifluvents
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 113
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gravier
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clowfin
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, calcareous, mesic Typic Tor
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - 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—40

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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

    2

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    1530

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    135

    18

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    9

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    10

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    1A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; gravelly silt loam; weak coarse platy, and weak medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine vesicular and 0.5 fine and medium interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03427. Thin lime coats on side and undersides of rock fragments.; few very fine and fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    1A2—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; gravelly silt loam; moderate medium platy, and moderate very fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 20 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 # 84P03428. Thin lime coats on sides, tops; thick coats on undersides, thin pendants.; few very fine and fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    1Ac—13 to 41 centimeters (5.1 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; gravelly silt 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 tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 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 # 84P03429. Thin lime coats on sides, tops; thick coats on undersides, thin pendants.; common very fine roots; few fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    1C1—41 to 59 centimeters (16.1 to 23.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 65 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03430. Thin lime coats on side, tops; thick coats on undersides, thin pendants.; many very fine roots; few fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    1C2—59 to 91 centimeters (23.2 to 35.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; extremely gravelly loamy fine sand; massive; soft, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 65 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03431. Thin lime coats on sides, tops; thick coats on undersides, thin pendants.; many very fine roots; few fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    1C3—91 to 101 centimeters (35.8 to 39.8 inches); weak red (2.5YR 5/2), pale red (2.5YR 7/2), dry; gravelly very fine sandy loam; massive; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03432. Ash layer.; common very fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    1C4—101 to 119 centimeters (39.8 to 46.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 70 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 # 84P03433. Thin lime coats on sides, tops; thick coats on undersides, thin pendants.; common very fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    1C5—119 to 155 centimeters (46.9 to 61.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; very gravelly loamy sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03434. Thin lime coats on sides, tops; thick coats on undersides, thin pendants.; common very fine roots; effervescence is continuous