IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): BITTER SPRING
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959NV003016
  • User Pedon ID: S1959NV003016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3159
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38288
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 36.7652779
  • Std. Longitude: -114.1305542
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: West 1.3 miles from Mesquite Post Office on Highway 91, turn left at the Bunkerville turnoff, proceed south and west 4.2 miles on old US Highway 91 to Bunkerville Park road, south on graveled road to park. Sample site is approximately 350 feet northwest of park.
  • 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 and V. D. Leavitt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, thermic Typic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 16
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - BITTER SPRING
  • PSC - 4 to 18 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bitter Spring
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • 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
    • 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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    A1—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; loam; moderate coarse platy structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 21.0 fine and medium vesicular pores; clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24681. continuous - phpvsfiid 188250; continuous - phpvsfiid 188250
    B2t—4 to 8 centimeters (1.6 to 3.1 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; weak fine and medium platy parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 fine roots; 3.0 fine and medium vesicular and tubular pores; clay films on faces of peds and in pores and clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24682. continuous - phpvsfiid 188251; continuous - phpvsfiid 188251
    B3tca—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches);, reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy loam; 1 percent pink (7.5YR 8/4) fine and medium distinct mottles; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24683
    IIC1ca—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches);, brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; gravelly sandy loam; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24684
    IIIC2—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches);, reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly loam; 1 percent fine and 3 percent pinkish white (5YR 8/2) distinct mottles; massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 85 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 40A24685