IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ninemile
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NV031007
  • User Pedon ID: 86NV031007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0909
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59203
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 40.9902763
  • Std. Longitude: -119.4997253
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36N
  • Range: 22E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 950 feet E and 1200 feet S of the NW corner
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV031—Washoe
  • MLRA: 23—Malheur High Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ed Blake and Carl Hasty
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Lithic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ninemile
  • PSC - 0 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ninemile
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, montmorillonitic, frigid 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
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • 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
    • 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

    7

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    2068

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    315

    35

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; very stony loam; 19 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05455. common very fine roots
    1Bt1—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior, moist; gravelly clay; 50 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 55 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05456. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots; few fine and medium roots
    1Bt2—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, moist; gravelly clay; 50 percent clay; weak fine and medium prismatic, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; hard, friable, 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; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05457. many pressure faces surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots
    1Bt3—25 to 30 centimeters (9.8 to 11.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, moist; clay; 54 percent clay; strong fine and medium prismatic, and strong fine angular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent distinct pressure faces on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05458. Many very fine and fine roots matted along rock surface.; many pressure faces surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots
    1R—30 centimeters (11.8 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Hard basalt bedrock.