IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Atlow
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NV013005
  • User Pedon ID: 88NV013005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0694
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60812
  • Print Date: 1/26/2025

    • 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: 40.9150009
  • Std. Longitude: -117.3988876
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: East Humboldt, Nevada. Golconda summit.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV013—Humboldt

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Russ Barmore
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Atlow
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Smr502
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, mesic Lithic Xerollic Haplargid
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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
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    3

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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly loam; weak medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P03695. many very fine roots
    A2—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly loam; moderate medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 88P03696. many very fine roots
    Bt—10 to 15 centimeters (3.9 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 88P03697. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; many very fine roots
    Cr—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 88P03698. fractured rock, vertical cracks filled with Bt soil material (10YR 5/3), (10YR 4/3), Cl textured, roots extend vertically into fractures
    R—33 centimeters (13.0 inches); fragments. hard fractured