IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Roca
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NV013304
  • User Pedon ID: 86NV013304
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0767
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59061
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 41.0526810
  • Std. Longitude: -117.3973389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Fenceline about 2 mi W of Lone Butte, Stop 62.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV013—Humboldt
  • MLRA: 24—Humboldt Basin and Range Area

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Xerollic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 304
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Roca
  • PSC - 23 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Roca
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, montmorillonitic, frigid Xerollic
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1986 (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—15

    23—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

    27

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    1709

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    180

    28

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    6

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    8

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    1A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; very cobbly loam; 50 percent sand; 40 percent silt; weak medium platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine vesicular and 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04616. many very fine roots
    1A2—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; very cobbly loam; 50 percent sand; 35 percent silt; weak medium platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 5.5 very fine vesicular pores; 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04617. many very fine roots
    1BA—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; extremely cobbly clay loam; 35 percent sand; 33 percent silt; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04618. many very fine roots; few fine and medium roots
    1Bt1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; extremely cobbly clay; 30 percent sand; 30 percent silt; strong fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04619. few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine roots; few fine roots
    1Bt2—36 to 66 centimeters (14.2 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; very gravelly clay; 25 percent sand; 27 percent silt; strong fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04620. Common thin silica pendants on rock fragments. About 5% weathered fragments in the lower part.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; few very fine and fine roots
    1R—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Weathered tuffaceous sediments thinly beded over hard quartzite at 89 cm. (the upper 5 to 8 cm can be dug with difficulty with a spade.)