IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wyva
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NV017006
  • User Pedon ID: 86NV017006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986NV017006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0891
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59185
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 37.5916672
  • Std. Longitude: -114.7500000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4S
  • Range: 64E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 475 feet S and 5 feet W of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Delamar Mountains
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV017—Lincoln
  • MLRA: 29—Southern Nevada Basin and Range

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Lithic Ustollic 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 #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wyva
  • PSC - 5 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wyva
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Lithic Ustollic Hapla
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • 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: 4/1/1986 (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

    ARTRW

    EPVI

    Artemisia tridentata var. wyomingensis

    Ephedra viridis

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    mormon tea

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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

    32

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    1812

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    0

    25

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    1A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; very cobbly sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 29 percent silt; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05361. many very fine roots
    1Bt1—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, dry; extremely cobbly clay loam; 35 percent sand; 33 percent silt; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05362. many very fine and fine roots
    1Bt2—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, dry; extremely cobbly clay loam; 35 percent sand; 29 percent silt; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 50 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05363. common very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    1R—36 centimeters (14.2 inches); fragments. Fractured rhyolitic tuff.