IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tippipah
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1959NV017034
  • User Pedon ID: S1959NV017034
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1959NV017034
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3169
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38298
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 37.6366234
  • Std. Longitude: -115.8705978
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 54E
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 520 feet N of the S 1/4 corner
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV017—Lincoln
  • MLRA: 29—Southern Nevada Basin and Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV611—Pahranagat-Penoyer Area, Nevada, Parts of Lincoln and Nye Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. G. Harper
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Duric Natrargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 34
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tippipah
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tippipah
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ATCO

    ATCO

    PLEUR12

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Pleuraphis

    shadscale saltbush

    shadscale saltbush

    galleta grass

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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

    2

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    1564

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    45

    203

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    11.1

    21.7

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; coarse sandy loam; moderate thick platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24759
    A&B—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; coarse sandy loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular and 21.0 very fine and fine and medium interstitial pores; clay films on faces of peds and in pores and between sand grains; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, thymol-blue; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A24760. patchy - phpvsfiid 188282; patchy - phpvsfiid 188282
    B21t—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 3 percent white (10YR 8/1) fine and medium distinct mottles; moderate medium columnar parts to moderate thick platy, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 21.0 interstitial pores; clay films on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24761. continuous - phpvsfiid 188284; continuous - phpvsfiid 188284
    B22t—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; sandy loam; fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and fine and medium roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24762. patchy - phpvsfiid 188285; patchy - phpvsfiid 188285
    B3t—66 to 89 centimeters (26.0 to 35.0 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; clay films on faces of peds; 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24763. patchy - phpvsfiid 188286; patchy - phpvsfiid 188286
    IIC1—89 to 104 centimeters (35.0 to 40.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; gravelly loamy coarse sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 65 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24764
    IIC2si—104 to 117 centimeters (40.9 to 46.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly loamy coarse sand; massive; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine and medium interstitial pores; 80 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly alkaline, pH 8.9, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24765
    IIC3sica—117 to 130 centimeters (46.1 to 51.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; very gravelly loamy coarse sand; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm*, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.0 roots; 0.5 very fine and fine and 21.0 pores; 80 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24766
    IIIC4sic—130 to 168 centimeters (51.2 to 66.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and very pale brown (10YR 8/3) and pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; gravelly sandy loam; massive; hard, friable, weakly coherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.0 roots; very coarse vesicular and 21.0 fine and medium interstitial pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 40A24767