IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): BITTER SPRING
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959NV003018
  • User Pedon ID: S1959NV003018
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3160
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38289
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 36.7169456
  • Std. Longitude: -114.2347260
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: West 1.3 miles from Mesquite Post Office to Bunkerville turnoff on Highway 91, turn left onto old Highway 91 and proceed south and west 8.0 miles to Riverside Bridge, turn west on gravel road and go 1.4 miles to the sample site. It is located approximately 200 feet south of road and approximately 0.3 of a mile east of the Bundy ranch house.
  • 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 #: 18
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - BITTER SPRING
  • PSC - 5 to 11 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
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    20

    30.6

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; loam; moderate medium platy structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 fine vesicular pores; clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24686. continuous - phpvsfiid 188253; continuous - phpvsfiid 188253
    B2t—5 to 11 centimeters (2.0 to 4.3 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; clay films on faces of peds and in pores and clay bridges between sand grains; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24687. continuous - phpvsfiid 188254; continuous - phpvsfiid 188254
    IIB3tca—11 to 38 centimeters (4.3 to 15.0 inches);, reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 21 percent pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2) fine and medium distinct mottles; massive; slightly hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 35 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24688
    IIIC1ca—38 to 46 centimeters (15.0 to 18.1 inches);, reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist; gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2) and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4); 20 percent by volume unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 80 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24689
    IIIC2—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) very gravelly loam; 21 percent pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2) fine and medium mottles; massive; very hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 40A24690