IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Geer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987NV023008
  • User Pedon ID: 87NV023008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0280
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59575
  • 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: 38.7707748
  • Std. Longitude: -115.1825180
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: White River Valley
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV023—Nye
  • MLRA: 29—Southern Nevada Basin and Range

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JBF
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Geer
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed (calcareous) Typic Torriorthents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Runoff: low
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    0—33

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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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    90

    15

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    11

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    12

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    1A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; very fine sandy loam; 12 percent clay; weak coarse platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine vesicular and 5.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01394. Less than 5% gravel.; few very fine and fine roots
    1A2—8 to 33 centimeters (3.1 to 13.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; loamy very fine sand; 12 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01395. Less than 5% gravel.; many very fine roots; many medium roots
    1C1—33 to 69 centimeters (13.0 to 27.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; loam; 15 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01396. Less than 5% gravel.; many very fine roots; many medium roots
    1C2—69 to 102 centimeters (27.2 to 40.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; very fine sandy loam; 12 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 87P01397. Less than 5% gravel.; common very fine roots; common medium roots