IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cresal
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NV013008
  • User Pedon ID: 88NV013008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0697
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60815
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 41.6019440
  • Std. Longitude: -118.4377747
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: East Humboldt, Nevada. Desert Valley moisture site.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV013—Humboldt

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Russ Barmore
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Durorthidic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cresal
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Smr500
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Durixerollic Camborthid
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1988 (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
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    ochric epipedon

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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
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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; strong medium platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P03715
    A2—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; moderate medium platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P03716. many very fine roots
    Bw—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P03717. common silica coats on ped faces; common very fine roots
    Bqk1—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P03718. few very fine and fine roots
    Bqk2—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P03719. few very fine roots
    Bqk3—71 to 89 centimeters (28.0 to 35.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P03720. few very fine roots
    2Bk1—89 to 109 centimeters (35.0 to 42.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P03721. few very fine roots
    2Bk2—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; silt loam; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 88P03722. trace of gypsum in soft filaments; few very fine roots