IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cresal
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984NV027001
  • User Pedon ID: 84NV027001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0620
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54864
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 40.8327789
  • Std. Longitude: -118.3986130
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 34N
  • Range: 32E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 2400 feet East, 550 feet South of the Northwest corner
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV027—Pershing
  • MLRA: 27—Fallon-Lovelock Area

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Zielinski, T. Bowles and D. Jossie
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, calcareous, mesic Durorthidic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cresal
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cresal
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed (calcareous), mesic Durorthidi
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: intermontane basin
  • Landform: playa or alluvial flat
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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—10

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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

    1

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    1286

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    90

    150

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    10

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    1A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine vesicular and tubular and 5.5 coarse vesicular and tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P03460. few fine roots
    1A2—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and strong fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine roots; 5.5 medium vesicular and tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P03461. common fine roots
    1Bqk1—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate fine platy, and moderate medium platy structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 fine roots between peds; 5.5 medium vesicular and tubular pores; 1 percent fine cylindrical durinodes; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03462. 10 percent weak durinodes 5-15 mm.; few fine durinodes concentrations; many fine roots between peds; few fine distinct 7.5YR56 mottles
    1Bqk1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 medium roots and 2.5 fine roots; 5.5 medium vesicular and tubular pores; 11 percent fine cylindrical durinodes; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03463. 25 percent weak durinodes.; common fine durinodes concentrations; common fine roots; few medium roots
    2Ck—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; silt loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; strong fine platy structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 medium vesicular and tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P03464. Mottles are relict.; few fine roots; few fine distinct 10YR44 mottles
    2C—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; weak fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P03465. Mottles are relict.; few fine roots; few fine distinct 10YR44 mottles
    2Ck—86 to 104 centimeters (33.9 to 40.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; silt loam; 11 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; strong fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 medium vesicular and tubular pores; 15 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P03466. Mottles are relict.; few manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features; few fine roots; common fine distinct 10YR44 mottles
    3C—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; silt loam; 11 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium platy structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 medium vesicular and tubular pores; 37 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 84P03467. Mottles are relict.; common manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features; few fine roots; common fine distinct 10YR44 mottles