IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zaqua
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NV017010
  • User Pedon ID: 86NV017010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0886
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59180
  • 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: 37.2913895
  • Std. Longitude: -114.2202759
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7S
  • Range: 69E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 750 feet N and 2000 feet W of the projected SE corner
  • Location Description: Clover Mountains.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV017—Lincoln

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic, shallow 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 #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Zaqua
  • PSC - 10 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zaqua
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic, shallow Ustollic Hap
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1986
  • 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: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1986 (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
    • 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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    15

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 14 percent silt; moderate fine platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05335. common very fine roots
    1Bt1—8 to 23 centimeters (3.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, dry; very gravelly clay loam; 44 percent sand; 20 percent silt; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 8 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05336. Many pressure faces and common very thin lime coats on undersides of ped faces.; common very fine and fine roots
    1Bt2—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, dry; very gravelly sandy clay loam; 47 percent sand; 20 percent silt; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 12 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05337. common very fine and fine roots
    1Cr—43 centimeters (16.9 inches); fragments. Soft bedrock intermediate rhyolitic tuff.