IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Huilepass
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994NV033007
  • User Pedon ID: 94NV033007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1994NV033007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0732
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024
  • 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: 39.3318825
  • Std. Longitude: -114.4972458
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 66E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 2050 feet west and 1000 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: 3343—Huilepass 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-C4—Yelland Dry Lake, Nevada
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gary Medlyn, Tom McKay, Paul Blackburn, Paul LaVallee
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Xerollic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Huilepass
  • PSC - 13 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/6/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Huilepass
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Xeric Haplargid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/14/1994
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landform: fan remnant
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/14/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 128
  • 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

    ARTRW

    ARTRW8

    ELEL5

    EPNE

    HIJA

    ORHY

    PLEUR12

    POSE

    POSE

    SIHY

    STCO4

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Artemisia tridentata var. wyomingensis

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

    Elymus elymoides

    Ephedra nevadensis

    Hilaria jamesii

    Oryzopsis hymenoides

    Pleuraphis

    Poa secunda

    Poa secunda

    Sitanion hystrix

    Stipa comata

    Indian ricegrass

    Wyoming big sagebrush

    squirreltail

    Nevada jointfir

    galleta grass

    Sandberg bluegrass

    Sandberg bluegrass

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—13

    13—46

    46—153

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    8

    1794

    90

    230

    9

    8

    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; extremely gravelly loam; 45 percent sand; 12 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate thin platy structure; soft, very friable, weak, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.9 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.9 very fine and fine low-continuity vesicular and 3.0 very fine moderate-continuity continuous tubular pores; 55 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; 35 percent of percent, by wei; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P05519; dry when described;
    Bt1—13 to 31 centimeters (5.1 to 12.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; extremely gravelly loam; 40 percent sand; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 6.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 0.9 coarse roots throughout; 6.0 very fine moderate-continuity continuous tubular pores; 60 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; 30 percent of percent, by wei; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P05520; dry when described;
    Bt2—31 to 46 centimeters (12.2 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; extremely gravelly loam; 45 percent sand; 18 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 6.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium and coarse roots throughout; 0.9 very fine moderate-continuity interstitial and 6.0 very fine moderate-continuity continuous tubular pores; 60 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; 35 percent of percent, by wei; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P05521; dry when described;
    C—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; extremely gravelly sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 6 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 6.0 very fine to coarse roots throughout and 0.9 medium and coarse roots throughout; 6.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity interstitial and 0.9 fine moderate-continuity continuous tubular pores; distinct carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 65 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; 65 percent of percent, by wei; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P05522; dry when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 180726; continuous - phpvsfiid 180726
    2Ck1—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; extremely gravelly loamy sand; 85 percent sand; 4 percent clay; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.9 medium and coarse roots throughout; 6.0 very fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; distinct carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 60 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; 75 percent of percent, by wei; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P05523; dry when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 180727; continuous - phpvsfiid 180727
    2Ck2—94 to 153 centimeters (37.0 to 60.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; extremely gravelly sand; 90 percent sand; 2 percent clay; massive; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; 0.9 very fine to coarse roots throughout; 6.0 very fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; distinct carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 60 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; 85 percent of percent, by wei; very slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6. Lab sample # 94P05524; dry when described;. continuous - phpvsfiid 180728; continuous - phpvsfiid 180728