IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Handpah
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987NV023004
  • User Pedon ID: 87NV023004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0271
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59566
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.1366043
  • Std. Longitude: -116.6775589
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV023—Nye
  • MLRA: 29—Southern Nevada Basin and Range

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JBF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, mesic, shallow Xerollic Durargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Handpah
  • PSC - 10 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Handpah
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, mesic, shallow Xerollic Durargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1987
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - first edition
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—8

    8—38

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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

    4

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    1800

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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); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; gravelly loamy sand; 6 percent clay; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01359. 15% gravel.; few very fine roots
    1A2—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; 11 percent clay; weak coarse platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01360. 5% gravel.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; many very fine and fine roots
    1Bt1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine and medium roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01361. Face sandy E material - discontinuous E material. 5% gravel.; few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; common very fine roots; common fine and medium roots
    1Bt2—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; clay; 40 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine and medium roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01362. 5% gravel.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine roots; common fine and medium roots
    1Btkq—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; gravelly clay loam; 29 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01363. Gravel consists most of pan fragment and nodes. 30% gravel.; few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots
    1Bkqm—43 to 165 centimeters (16.9 to 65.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 87P01364. Indurated hardpan, continuous strong cementation, continuous laminella.