IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): LYDA
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1992NV023001
  • User Pedon ID: 92NV023001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1992NV023001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 92P0570
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 64809
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 38.7022209
  • Std. Longitude: -117.7722244
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 38E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet W and 1800 feet S of the NE corner
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV023—Nye
  • MLRA: 29—Southern Nevada Basin and Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV781—Nye County, Nevada, Northwest Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JBF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Durargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - LYDA
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lyda
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic, shallow Typic Durarg
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/1992
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/23/1992 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ATCO

    ATCO

    CHRYS9

    CHRYS9

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Chrysothamnus

    Chrysothamnus

    shadscale saltbush

    shadscale saltbush

    rabbitbrush

    rabbitbrush

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    duripan

    0—8

    8—28

    28—86

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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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    1823

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    175

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very cobbly loam; weak fine platy structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P03325
    Bt—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; very gravelly clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to granular structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine to medium roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 92P03326
    Bqkm—28 to 86 centimeters (11.0 to 33.9 inches); massive; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 92P03327
    Bqk1—86 to 114 centimeters (33.9 to 44.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; stratified extremely gravelly loamy sand; massive; weakly cemented; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 92P03328
    Bqk2—114 to 160 centimeters (44.9 to 63.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; extremely cobbly loamy sand; massive; soft, very friable; 25 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 92P03329