IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shabliss
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989NV007003
  • User Pedon ID: 89NV007003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0568
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61670
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 40.5122223
  • Std. Longitude: -114.9297256
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Elko County. Near Spruce Mountain (US 93, 150 meters SW of mile marker).
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV007—Elko

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, semiactive, mesic Xerollic Durorthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shabliss
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shabliss
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1989 (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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    1890

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    270

    23

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    8

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; moderate medium and coarse platy structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine vesicular and 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03122. common very fine and fine roots; common medium roots
    Bw—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; gravelly loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 2.5 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 1 percent fine lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03123. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations; common very fine and fine roots; common medium roots
    Bkq—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03124. frags (gravels) lime coated - some with pendants undersides; 30% durinodes (hard); weakly cemented; few medium roots; common very fine and fine roots
    2Bkqm—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam; hard, very firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03125. frags moderately cemented and lime coated with pendants on bottom; strongly cemented continuous duripan with laminar cap 1-2 mm thick with many matted roots on top of cap (f and m)
    2Bkq—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 fine interstitial pores; 30 percent fine and medium lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.9, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03126. 5-10% of frags are pan frags; weakly cemented frags are lime and silica coated - some with pendants on undersides; many fine and medium soft masses of lime concentrations; few very fine and fine roots
    3Bkqm—76 to 89 centimeters (29.9 to 35.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; very hard, very firm; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03127. indurated duripan; roots are matted 1 vf, f, m along cap surface and in discontinuous pockets of non-cemented grx-lcos
    3Ckq—89 to 152 centimeters (35.0 to 59.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 fine and medium interstitial pores; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 89P03128. moderate 40% discontinuous strongly cemented lens 3-5" thick stratified; frags are lime and silica coated on undersides with moderately thick pendants on undersides; common hard lime masses; 10% weak discontinuous indurated lens 1-2" thick