IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Armespan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987NV023020
  • User Pedon ID: 87NV023020
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0282
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59577
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 38.8750000
  • Std. Longitude: -115.5466690
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 57E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 2400 feet N and 1200 feet E of SW corner
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV023—Nye
  • MLRA: 29—Southern Nevada Basin and Range

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Durixerollic Calciorthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 20
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Armespan
  • PSC - 25 to 94 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Armespan
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Durixerollic Calciort
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1987
  • 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: 9/1/1987 (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 Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    1A1

    0

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    42

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    1A1

    0

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    1A1

    0

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—25

    25—94

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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

    7

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    270

    20

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    10

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    12

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    1A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; gravelly loam; 14 percent clay; weak medium platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01403. 15% gravel.; few very fine roots
    1A2—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; gravelly loam; 42 percent sand; 15 percent clay; weak coarse platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine vesicular and 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01404. 20% gravel.; few very fine and fine roots
    1Bk1—25 to 69 centimeters (9.8 to 27.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 53 percent sand; 16 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine and fine tubular and 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01405. 45% gravel.; many very fine roots; many medium roots
    1Bk2—69 to 94 centimeters (27.2 to 37.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; extremely gravelly sandy loam; 68 percent sand; 12 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, hellige-truog. 25-30% weak silica carbonate cementation. 55% gravel.; few very fine and fine roots