IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Geer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987NV023018
  • User Pedon ID: 87NV023018
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0278
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59573
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 38.7686119
  • Std. Longitude: -116.2247238
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 51E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet N and 800 feet E of SW corner
  • Location Description: Near exclosure Luthe Wadle Wash.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV023—Nye
  • MLRA: 29—Southern Nevada Basin and Range

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JBF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Typic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 18
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Geer
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Geer
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed (calcareous), mesic Typic Torr
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • 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: very 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
    • 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

    2

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    1983

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    90

    20

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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; 11 percent clay; moderate medium platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01388. Less than 5% gravel.
    1A2—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; loam; 11 percent clay; weak coarse platy, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01389. Less than 5% gravel.; many very fine and fine roots
    1C1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; loam; 11 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01390. Less than 5% gravel.; many very fine and fine roots
    1C2—36 to 91 centimeters (14.2 to 35.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; loam; 11 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Less than 5% gravel.; many very fine and fine roots
    1C3—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; loam; 11 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog. Less than 5% gravel.; common very fine and fine roots