IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bombadil
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NV031004
  • User Pedon ID: 86NV031004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0906
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59200
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 40.7355537
  • Std. Longitude: -119.8538895
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 33N
  • Range: 19E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 50 feet N and 2000 feet E of SW corner
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV031—Washoe
  • MLRA: 23—Malheur High Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ed Blake and Bill Dollarhide
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bombadil
  • PSC - 0 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bombadil
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, montmorillonitic, mesic Lithic Xerollic Ha
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 32.50 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

    argillic horizon

    8—28

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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

    9

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    1440

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    315

    20

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    1A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; very stony sandy loam; 18 percent clay; moderate medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 2.5 very fine vesicular pores; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05440. common very fine roots
    1A2—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial and 2.5 very fine vesicular pores; 12 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05441. common very fine roots; few fine roots
    1Bt1—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; sandy clay loam; 25 percent clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 12 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05442. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots
    1Bt2—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; clay; 35 percent clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent distinct pressure faces and 55 percent distinct clay films in root channels and/or pores; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05443. many pressure faces surface features; many clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; few very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    1R—28 centimeters (11.0 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Hard andesitic tuff.