IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goodsprings
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956NV003002
  • User Pedon ID: S1956NV003002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1956NV003002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0194
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32723
  • 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: 36.0213852
  • Std. Longitude: -115.2083359
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22S
  • Range: 60E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 300 feet north and 30 feet west of 1/4 corner
  • Location Description: Approximately 6 miles southwest of McCarran Air Field.
  • 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 #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Goodsprings
  • PSC - 25 to 36 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), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; gravelly sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 roots; 3.0 vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A01446
    B2—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); pink (5YR 7/4), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist; gravelly sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 roots; 3 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A01447. some gravels found in this horizon. 1-4 inch thick.
    B3ca—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist; gravelly loamy fine sand; 3 percent white (7.5YR 8/1) fine distinct mottles; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 21.0 roots; 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A01448. 1inch plus size gravels were removed from sample and constitutes approximately 2 percent of the total volume.
    IIC1ca—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist; very gravelly loamy sand; massive; hard, firm, moderately coherent; 0.5 roots; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A01449
    IIC2cam—36 centimeters (14.2 inches); pink (7.5YR 8/4), reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6), moist; very gravelly sand; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm*, weakly coherent by silica; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 40A01450. 1inch plus size gravels were removed from samples and constitutes approximately 30 percent of the total volume.