IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goosel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NV013308
  • User Pedon ID: 86NV013308
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986NV013308
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0763
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59057
  • 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: 41.6923904
  • Std. Longitude: -117.1967926
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Along SW gas pipeline approximately E-NE of Greely Xing.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV013—Humboldt
  • MLRA: 25—Owyhee High Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Xerollic Durargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 308
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Goosel
  • PSC - 30 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Goosel
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Xerollic Durargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1986
  • 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

  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very low
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARTRT

    ARTRW

    SIHY

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. tridentata

    Artemisia tridentata var. wyomingensis

    Sitanion hystrix

    basin big sagebrush

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    duripan

    0—30

    30—48

    48—81

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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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    1772

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    315

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    1A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; loam; 45 percent sand; 43 percent silt; moderate fine platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P04589. common fine roots; many very fine roots
    1A2—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; loam; 40 percent sand; 45 percent silt; weak medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P04590. many very fine roots; few fine and medium roots
    1A3—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; loam; 40 percent sand; 39 percent silt; weak medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium and coarse roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04591. Less than 5 percent gravel.; common very fine and fine roots; common medium and coarse roots
    1Bt—30 to 38 centimeters (11.8 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; clay loam; 32 percent sand; 30 percent silt; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium and coarse roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and tubular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films and 37 percent faint skeletans over cutans on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04592. Less than 5 percent gravel.; common skeletans over cutans surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine and fine roots; common medium and coarse roots
    1Btk—38 to 48 centimeters (15.0 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; clay; 30 percent sand; 25 percent silt; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent faint skeletans over cutans on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04593. CaCO3 seams (10YR 6/3). 10 percent gravel. Has 10% cs and indurated fragments in lower part; less than 2% 1 to 2 cm cs durinodes.; common skeletans over cutans surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    1Bqkm—48 to 89 centimeters (18.9 to 35.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior, dry; weathered bedrock; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P04594. A discontinuous weathered rind on the surface. Cemented strong and induated layers alt. with lamanar S1O2 caps upto 1 mm thick. Bqkm has few very fine and fine roots between plates.
    1R—89 to 114 centimeters (35.0 to 44.9 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Hard vesicular basalt.