IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Flue
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NV013303
  • User Pedon ID: 86NV013303
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0766
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59060
  • Print Date: 11/22/2024

    • 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: 41.2032318
  • Std. Longitude: -117.1356659
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 38N
  • Range: 43E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet S and 150 feet W of the center
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV013—Humboldt

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Nadurargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 303
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Flue
  • PSC - 33 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chimmey
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Xerollic Durargid
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1986
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1986 (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

    argillic horizon

    0—23

    33—74

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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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    1452

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    23

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    9

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    11

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    1A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dry; silt loam; 40 percent sand; 50 percent silt; weak coarse platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04608. common very fine roots
    1A2—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dry; very fine sandy loam; 50 percent sand; 42 percent silt; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate fine and medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine vesicular and 2.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04609. common very fine and fine roots
    1Bq—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; very fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 13 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium platy structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04610. Very brittle but do break down in water. Pressure faces on peds.; common very fine roots
    2Btnk—33 to 63 centimeters (13.0 to 24.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior, light brown (7.5YR 6/3) interior, dry; clay; 22 percent sand; 30 percent silt; strong fine and medium prismatic structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P04611. Few very small Mn stains on peds.; common very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    2Btqk—63 to 74 centimeters (24.8 to 29.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, dry; clay loam; 40 percent sand; 35 percent silt; moderate fine and medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 5.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P04612. common very fine roots
    2Bqky—74 to 97 centimeters (29.1 to 38.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, dry; gravelly sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 16 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04613. few very fine roots
    3Bqkm—97 to 104 centimeters (38.2 to 40.9 inches); platy structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 86P04614. Indurated pan.
    3Cqk—104 to 152 centimeters (40.9 to 59.8 inches); gravelly coarse sand; massive; nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 fine to coarse tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P04615. The varigated color of the coarse fragments. 5 cm discontinuous layer on top of pan with out segregated lime. Discontinuous 5 to 13 cm continuous cemented layer just above pan. Coarse fragments held weakly in place on lime and silica cementa