IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): GOODSPRINGS
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956NV003001
  • User Pedon ID: S1956NV003001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1956NV003001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3189
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 36.0355492
  • Std. Longitude: -115.2030563
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22S
  • Range: 61E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4, NW 1/4
  • Location Description: Las Vegas SCD. It is approximately 300 feet north of the Blue Diamond Road. Approximately 5 miles southwest of McCarran Air Field. 1,300 feet east and 100 feet north of 1/4 corner, Sec. 13, T. 22 S., R. 60 E and Sec. 18. T. 22 S., R. 61 E
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV003—Clark
  • MLRA: 30—Mojave Basin and Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV788—Las Vegas Valley Area, Nevada, Part of Clark County

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. N. Langan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, thermic, shallow Typic Paleorthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - GOODSPRINGS
  • PSC - 25 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Goodsprings
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/1/1956 (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

    YUCCA

    YUCCA

    Yucca

    Yucca

    yucca

    yucca

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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

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    701

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    127

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    A1—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist; gravelly loamy fine sand; weak medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable; 0.5 roots; 0.3 vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24944
    B2—3 to 8 centimeters (1.2 to 3.1 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 7/6), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist; fine sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24945
    B3ca—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); pink (5YR 8/4), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist; fine sandy loam; 3 percent white (10YR 8/1) fine distinct mottles; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24946
    IIC1ca—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist; very gravelly loam; massive; hard, friable, weakly coherent; 0.5 roots; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24947
    IIC2cam—41 centimeters (16.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; massive; very hard, very firm, moderately coherent by silica, slightly sticky; 10 percent by volume unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 40A24948