IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): TOQUOP
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959NV003004
  • User Pedon ID: S1959NV003004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959NV003004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3215
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38344
  • 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: 36.8105545
  • Std. Longitude: -114.0625000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13S
  • Range: 71E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: It is approximately 400 feet east and 1300 feet south of the apparent N1/4 corner
  • Location Description: approximately 500 feet southwest of Mesquite Cemetery and 300 feet northwest of US Highway 91 where the irrigation ditch crosses under the highway at the north edge of Mesquite, Nevada.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV003—Clark
  • MLRA: 30—Mojave Basin and Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV608—Virgin River Area, Nevada and Arizona

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. N. Langan, V. D. Leavitt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Oxidic, thermic Typic Torripsamments
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - TOQUOP
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Toquop
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1959 (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

    PLSE

    Pluchea sericea

    arrowweed

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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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    127

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    20

    30.6

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    C1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); pink (5YR 8/4), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist; stony fine sand, fine gravelly sand; weak fine and medium platy parts to single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25129
    C2—15 to 63 centimeters (5.9 to 24.8 inches); pink (5YR 8/4), yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; fine sand, loamy fine sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25130
    C3—63 to 81 centimeters (24.8 to 31.9 inches); pink (5YR 8/4), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist; fine sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25131
    C4—81 to 114 centimeters (31.9 to 44.9 inches); pink (5YR 8/4), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist; fine sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25132
    C5—114 to 157 centimeters (44.9 to 61.8 inches); pink (5YR 8/4), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist; sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 40A25133