IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Piltdown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994NV033002
  • User Pedon ID: 94NV033002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1994NV033002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0727
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66900
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.7827110
  • Std. Longitude: -114.3294678
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.7 mile north of Mountain Valley and Barrier Bar roads. No township and range on USGS quad sheet.
  • Map Unit: 3231—Piltdown-Benin-Sondoa association
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV033—White Pine
  • MLRA: 28A—Ancient Lake Bonneville
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV779—White Pine County, Nevada, East Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39114-G3—Tippett, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gary Medlyn, Paul Lavallee
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Typic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Piltdown
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Piltdown
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed (calcareous), mesic Typic Torr
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/7/1994
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: bolson
  • Landform: beach plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/7/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 55
  • 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

    ACHY

    ARSP5

    ATCO

    ATCO

    EULA5

    HIJA

    PLEUR12

    SPCR

    STCO4

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Artemisia spinescens

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Eurotia lanata

    Hilaria jamesii

    Pleuraphis

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    Stipa comata

    Indian ricegrass

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    shadscale saltbush

    shadscale saltbush

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    galleta grass

    sand dropseed

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—20

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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

    1

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    1727

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    90

    180

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    9

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 15 percent clay; moderate medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, weak, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 6.0 very fine roots throughout; 6.0 fine moderate-continuity vesicular pores; fragments; 0 percent of percent, by wei; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P05491; dry when described;
    C—10 to 58 centimeters (3.9 to 22.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 13 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 6.0 very fine to medium roots throughout; 6.0 very fine to medium moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; 0 percent of percent, by wei; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P05492; dry when described;
    Cq—58 to 102 centimeters (22.8 to 40.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist; gravelly fine sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 10 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 6.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and tubular pores; 5 percent medium cylindrical weakly coherent cemented durinodes throughout; 30 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; 20 percent of percent, by wei; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P05493; dry when described;
    2C3—102 to 117 centimeters (40.2 to 46.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist; gravelly coarse sand; 95 percent sand; 2 percent clay; massive; loose, loose, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.9 very fine and fine roots throughout; 6.0 fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 10 percent distinct carbonate coats on rock fragments; fragments; 0 percent of percent, by wei; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P05494; dry when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 193953; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 193953
    3C4—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1), gray (10YR 6/1), moist; sand; 95 percent sand; 2 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.9 very fine roots throughout; 6.0 very fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; 0 percent of percent, by wei; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6. Lab sample # 94P05495; dry when described;. Horizon is stratified 70% sand, 30% fine sand. The one (1) chroma in the sand layer is due to parent material, not water related gleying (samples of each part of the stratified layers mixed to sample S94NV-017-2-5).
    3C4—117 to 152 centimeters (46.1 to 59.8 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; fine sand; 95 percent sand; 2 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 0.9 very fine roots throughout; 6.0 very fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; fragments; 0 percent of percent, by wei; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6. Lab sample # 94P05495; dry when described;