IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Devada
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NV031006
  • User Pedon ID: 86NV031006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0908
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59202
  • Print Date: 4/15/2025

    • 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: 40.9530563
  • Std. Longitude: -119.6011124
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36N
  • Range: 21E
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: 1800 feet N and 1300 feet W of SE corner
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV031—Washoe
  • MLRA: 23—Malheur High Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ed Blake, Carl Hasty and Steve Walker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, mesic Lithic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Devada
  • PSC - 5 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Devada
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, montmorillonitic, mesic Lithic Argixeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 32.50 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1986 (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—18

    5—48

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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

    17

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    1885

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    180

    30

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    1A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; very stony loam; 27 percent clay; moderate medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine vesicular and 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05451. common very fine roots
    1Bt1—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior, moist; gravelly clay; 48 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05452. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; many very fine and fine roots
    1Bt2—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, moist; clay; 56 percent clay; strong fine and medium prismatic, and strong medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent distinct pressure faces on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05453. Root mat at top of horizon roots run horizontally on top of prisms.; many pressure faces surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots
    1Bt3—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, moist; clay; 52 percent clay; strong fine and medium prismatic, and strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent distinct pressure faces on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 86P05454. many pressure faces surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots
    1R—48 centimeters (18.9 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Hard cracked basalt bedrock.