IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Esmod
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NV031007
  • User Pedon ID: 88NV031007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988NV031007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0687
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60805
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: -119.6061096
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV031—Washoe

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed, superactive, mesic Abruptic Xeric Argidurids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Esmod
  • PSC - 23 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Espil
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, montmorillonitic, frigid Abruptic Aridic A
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • 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:
  • 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

    ARAR8

    POA

    Artemisia arbuscula

    Poa

    little sagebrush

    bluegrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—23

    23—46

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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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    1774

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    135

    30

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    8

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; gravelly sandy loam; moderate medium platy, and thin platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine vesicular and 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03649. few very fine roots
    A2—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 coarse roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 medium tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03650. common coarse roots; common very fine roots
    Bt—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; clay; strong fine and medium prismatic structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent prominent clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03651. many clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots
    Btq—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03652. continuously weakly silica cemented; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots
    Bqmk1—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03653. strongly cemented duripan; cementing agent is silica/lime is not
    Bqmk2—66 to 117 centimeters (26.0 to 46.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dry; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P03654. indurated duripan; many continuous indurated lamela, strong cemented matrix; cementing agent is silica/lime is not
    Bq—117 to 132 centimeters (46.1 to 52.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; fragments. Lab sample # 88P03655. continuous weak silica cemented