IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Armespan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987NV023021
  • User Pedon ID: 87NV023021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0283
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59578
  • 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: 38.8774986
  • Std. Longitude: -115.5333328
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV023—Nye
  • MLRA: 29—Southern Nevada Basin and Range

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JBF
  • 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 #: 21
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Armespan
  • PSC - 25 to 100 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 - 3/1/1987
  • 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: 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

    calcic horizon

    0—23

    23—107

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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

    6

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    —

    —

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    270

    28

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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 4/3) interior, moist; gravelly sandy loam; 15 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; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01406. 25% gravel.; few very fine roots
    1A2—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; gravelly sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak coarse platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine vesicular and 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01407. 30% gravel.; common very fine and fine roots
    1Bk1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; gravelly sandy loam; 15 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 medium roots; 2.5 fine tubular 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 # 87P01408. 45% gravel.; many very fine roots; many medium roots
    1Bk2—36 to 107 centimeters (14.2 to 42.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; gravelly sandy loam; 12 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular and 2.5 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. 35% cementation and 50% gravel.; few fine roots