IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): DAVEY
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1961NV013006
  • User Pedon ID: S1961NV013006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1961NV013006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3210
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38339
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 41.6415482
  • Std. Longitude: -117.8073730
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 43N
  • Range: 37E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: 5 miles north and 1 1/2 miles west of Orovada.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV013—Humboldt
  • MLRA: 24—Humboldt Basin and Range Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV777—Humboldt County, Nevada, East Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Leland I. Larsen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Xerollic Camborthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - DAVEY
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Davey
  • Classificaton Date - 8/9/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: lake terrace
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/9/1961 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    ARTR2

    CHRYS9

    CHRYS9

    Artemisia tridentata

    Chrysothamnus

    Chrysothamnus

    big sagebrush

    rabbitbrush

    rabbitbrush

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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

    1

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    1311

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    305

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    10

    21.1

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    A1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; loamy sand; weak coarse platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25103
    C1—20 to 51 centimeters (7.9 to 20.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; loamy sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25104
    C2CA—51 to 104 centimeters (20.1 to 40.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; loamy fine sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A25105
    2C3CA—104 to 135 centimeters (40.9 to 53.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; loamy very fine sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 40A25106
    2C4CA—135 to 165 centimeters (53.1 to 65.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; loamy very fine sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 40A25107