IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bellehelen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987NV023007
  • User Pedon ID: 87NV023007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0274
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59569
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 38.0843811
  • Std. Longitude: -116.4289398
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Nye County, Nevada.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV023—Nye
  • MLRA: 29—Southern Nevada Basin and Range

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JBF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bellehelen
  • PSC - 0 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bellehelen
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Lithic Argixeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1987 (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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    5—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

    45

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    —

    2135

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    0

    36

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    —

    10

    —

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    12

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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; 18 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01376. 15% gravel.
    1Bt1—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; very cobbly clay loam; 30 percent clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 coarse roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 55 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01377. 20% gravel.; many clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine roots; common coarse roots
    1Bt2—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; very cobbly clay loam; 34 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 coarse roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P01378. 30% gravel.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine roots; common coarse roots
    1R—33 centimeters (13.0 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Hard tuff weathered and fractured in upper 13 cm.