IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kayo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991NV031001
  • User Pedon ID: 91NV031001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1991NV031001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0763
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63802
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 39.7869453
  • Std. Longitude: -119.3616638
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: PLIR - Washoe County, NV. 200 feet SW of exclosure.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV031—Washoe

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Xeric Calciargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kayo
  • PSC - 15 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kayo
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Xeralfic Haplargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1991
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1991 (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

    BRTE

    CHRYS

    POSE

    Bromus tectorum

    Chrysactinia

    Poa secunda

    cheatgrass

    chrysactinia

    Sandberg bluegrass

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—15

    15—48

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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

    3

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    1262

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    90

    20

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    10

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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; stony loamy sand; 6 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P04394. common very fine roots
    A2—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; sandy loam; 10 percent clay; moderate thin platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04395. common very fine and fine roots
    Bt1—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; very gravelly sandy clay loam; 26 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04396. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots; common medium roots
    Bt2—38 to 48 centimeters (15.0 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; very gravelly sandy clay loam; 21 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 very fine interstitial pores; 37 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04397. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots throughout
    2Bk1—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very gravelly loamy coarse sand; 6 percent clay; 11 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) coarse mottles; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 55 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04398. few thin lime pendants on rock fragments; common very fine and fine roots; common coarse 7.5YR44 mottles
    2Bk2—66 to 109 centimeters (26.0 to 42.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; very gravelly loamy coarse sand; 6 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial pores; 11 percent fine lime masses; 55 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 91P04399. many thin lime pendants on rock fragments; common fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine roots; common very fine roots
    3Bkq—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; very gravelly sandy loam; 21 percent clay; massive; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 30 percent fine lime masses; 55 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.9, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 91P04400. many thin lime pendants on rock fragments; 50% weak silica cementation; many fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few very fine roots