IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wylo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NV031003
  • User Pedon ID: 86NV031003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0905
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59199
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 40.5366669
  • Std. Longitude: -119.9627762
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31N
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 1800 feet S and 1800 feet E of NW corner
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV031—Washoe
  • MLRA: 23—Malheur High Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ed Blake and Bill Dollarhide
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wylo
  • PSC - 10 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wylo
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, montmorillonitic, mesic Lithic Argixeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—23

    10—23

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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

    28

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    1543

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    225

    28

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    1A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior and brown (10YR 5/3) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; stony loamy sand; 8 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05434. many very fine roots
    1A2—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 17 percent clay; weak medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05435. common very fine roots
    1A3—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; gravelly loam; 25 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05436. common very fine roots; few fine roots
    1Bt1—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; gravelly clay loam; 37 percent clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial and 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct pressure faces and 37 percent distinct clay films in root channels and/or pores; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05437. common pressure faces surface features; common clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; common very fine roots; few fine and medium roots
    1Bt2—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, moist; gravelly clay; 40 percent clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct pressure faces and 37 percent distinct clay films in root channels and/or pores; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05438. common pressure faces surface features; common clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; few very fine roots; few medium roots
    1R—41 centimeters (16.1 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Hard fractured basalt with clay fractures.