IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rocconda
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NV013306
  • User Pedon ID: 86NV013306
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0769
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59063
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 40.9560127
  • Std. Longitude: -117.3987274
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV013—Humboldt
  • MLRA: 24—Humboldt Basin and Range Area

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, smectitic, mesic Lithic Xerollic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 306
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rocconda
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rocconda
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, montmorillonitic, mesic Lithic Xe
  • 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: medium
  • 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

    8—18

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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

    15

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    —

    1519

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    0

    23

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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); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior, dry; very channery very fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 25 percent silt; moderate coarse platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine vesicular and 5.5 medium vesicular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04627. common very fine roots
    1A2—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; very channery loam; 50 percent sand; 25 percent silt; moderate coarse platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 5.5 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04628. common very fine roots; few fine and medium roots
    1Bt—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; extremely channery clay; 25 percent sand; 30 percent silt; moderate fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 86P04629. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine and fine roots; few medium and coarse roots
    1R—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) interior; fragments. Fractured phylite with clay and roots extending into fractures. Common thin white (2.5Y 8/2) silica lime pendants on rock fragments.