IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MOTTSVILLE
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961NV005005
  • User Pedon ID: S1961NV005005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1961NV005005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3251
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38380
  • 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: 38.8666649
  • Std. Longitude: -119.7969437
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 19E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet west and 50 feet south of the north quarter corner
  • Location Description: southwestern Carson Valley.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV005—Douglas
  • MLRA: 26—Carson Basin and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV773—Douglas County Area, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. N. Langan and R. L. Malchow
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Torripsammentic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - MOTTSVILLE
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mottsville
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1961 (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

    ACHY

    ARTR2

    CHRYS9

    CHRYS9

    PURSH

    PURSH

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Artemisia tridentata

    Chrysothamnus

    Chrysothamnus

    Purshia

    Purshia

    Indian ricegrass

    big sagebrush

    rabbitbrush

    rabbitbrush

    bitterbrush

    bitterbrush

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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

    5

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    90

    356

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    10.6

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    A11—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; gravelly loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25400
    A12—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; gravelly loamy coarse sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25401
    A13—25 to 46 centimeters (9.8 to 18.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; gravelly loamy coarse sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 21.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25402
    AC—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly coarse sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 fine interstitial pores; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A25403
    C1—76 to 124 centimeters (29.9 to 48.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) gravelly coarse sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.0 fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 40A25404