IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wintermute
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989NV007004
  • User Pedon ID: 89NV007004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1989NV007004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0569
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61671
  • 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: 40.1736107
  • Std. Longitude: -114.7491684
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: SE Elko County. About 5 miles SW of Currie NV in Steptoe Valley.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV007—Elko

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Duric Calciorthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wintermute
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wintermute
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1989 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    EULA5

    SIHY

    Eurotia lanata

    Sitanion hystrix

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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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    1829

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    90

    20

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    9

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly loam; moderate coarse platy, and strong medium platy structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 fine vesicular and 0.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03129. few very fine and fine roots
    Bk—8 to 33 centimeters (3.1 to 13.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; gravelly loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03130. rock fragments have thin lime coats on undersides; few slightly hard lime massed in lower portion of layer; common very fine and fine roots; common medium roots
    2Bqk1—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 2.5 fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03131. rock fragments are lime and silica coated with 2-3 mm pendants; many of the roots are exped and matted against the rock fragments; few fine and medium roots; common very fine roots
    2Bqk2—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 2.5 fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03132. rock fragments are lime and silica coated with 2-3 mm pendants; many of the roots are exped and matted against the rock fragments; few fine and medium roots; common very fine roots
    2Bqk3—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist; extremely gravelly loamy sand; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P03133. thin lime and silica coats on undersides of rock fragments; common slightly hard lime masses; few very fine and fine roots
    2Cqk—102 to 178 centimeters (40.2 to 70.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist; extremely gravelly loamy coarse sand; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 fine and medium interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 89P03134. 1-2mm lime coats and 2-3mm lime pendants on undersides of rock fragments; fragments weakly stratified; common soft lime and gypsum filaments; few very fine and fine roots