IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Geer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987NV023024
  • User Pedon ID: 87NV023024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0286
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59581
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 39.0333328
  • Std. Longitude: -115.7266693
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13 1/2N
  • Range: 55E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet S and 4000 feet W of NE corner
  • 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 #: 24
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Geer
  • 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:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • 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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    180

    15

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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; fine sandy loam; 12 percent clay; moderate coarse platy structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01415. 5% gravel.; few very fine roots
    1A2—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; very fine sandy loam; 11 percent clay; moderate coarse platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 fine vesicular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01416. 5% gravel.; common very fine and fine roots
    1C1—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; fine sandy 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; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P01417. 5% gravel.; many very fine and fine roots
    1C2—30 to 97 centimeters (11.8 to 38.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; fine sandy 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; clear smooth boundary. 5% gravel.; many very fine and fine roots
    1C3—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; sandy loam; 8 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments. 10% gravel.; few fine roots