IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Powlow
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NV031006
  • User Pedon ID: 88NV031006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988NV031006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0686
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60804
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 41.3511124
  • Std. Longitude: -119.6047211
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV031—Washoe

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, mesic Argidic Durixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Powlow
  • PSC - 23 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Powley
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Runoff: 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARTRW

    POSE

    SIHY

    Artemisia tridentata var. wyomingensis

    Poa secunda

    Sitanion hystrix

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    Sandberg bluegrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    duripan

    0—18

    23—38

    38—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

    4

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    1771

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    135

    30

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    8

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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very gravelly loamy sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03641
    A2—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak thick platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine vesicular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03642. few very fine and fine roots
    A3—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03643. many medium roots; many very fine roots
    AB—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03644. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; many medium roots; many very fine roots
    Bt—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; clay loam; weak prismatic, and subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03645. 5% str. silica cemented pan fragments; many clay films surface features on faces of peds; common medium roots; common very fine roots
    Bqm1—38 to 46 centimeters (15.0 to 18.1 inches); extremely hard, extremely firm*; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03646. indurated duripan; root mat at upper surface and few roots in upper fractures
    Bqm2—46 to 107 centimeters (18.1 to 42.1 inches); extremely hard, extremely firm*; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03647. strongly silica cemented duripan
    Bq—107 to 142 centimeters (42.1 to 55.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments. Lab sample # 88P03648