IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zadvar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987NV023002
  • User Pedon ID: 87NV023002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0269
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59564
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 38.3604889
  • Std. Longitude: -116.3639450
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 3460—Zadvar-Handpah association
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV023—Nye
  • MLRA: 29—Southern Nevada Basin and Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV783—Nye County, Nevada, Northeast Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John B. Fisher
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic, shallow Haploxeralfic Argidurids
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Zadvar
  • PSC - 0 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zadvar
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, mesic, shallow Haploxerollic Durargi
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1987 (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

    ochric epipedon

    0—10

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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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    1891

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    90

    20

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    11

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    12

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    1A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; gravelly sandy loam; 12 percent clay; moderate medium platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01346. 20% gravel.; few very fine and fine roots
    1A2—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; gravelly loam; 12 percent clay; moderate medium platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01347. 15% gravel.; common very fine and fine roots
    1Bt1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, moist; gravelly loam; 24 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 medium roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P01348. 20% gravel.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; many very fine roots; many medium roots
    1Bt2—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 medium roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01349. 20% gravel.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; many very fine roots; many medium roots
    1Bkqm—33 to 76 centimeters (13.0 to 29.9 inches); massive; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01350. Continuous strong cementation descontinuous laminar cap. 50 pockets of extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand.
    1Ckq—76 to 122 centimeters (29.9 to 48.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; very gravelly loamy coarse sand; massive, and structureless single grain; hard, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; 5.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01351. Stratified very gravelly loamy coarse sand and weakly to strongly cemented extremely gravelly loamy sand.
    1C1—122 to 183 centimeters (48.0 to 72.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; very gravelly loamy sand; massive; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01352. 45% gravel.
    1C2—183 centimeters (72.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; very gravelly sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog. 35% gravel.