IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): FERVER
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969NV031017
  • User Pedon ID: S1969NV031017
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1969NV031017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 69C0099
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43672
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 41.8937492
  • Std. Longitude: -119.9613266
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 46N
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 2640 feet N and 1320 feet E of the SW corner
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV031—Washoe
  • MLRA: 23—Malheur High Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV759—Washoe County, Nevada, North Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H.B. Summerfield
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, montmorillonitic, frigid, shallow Abruptic Xerollic Durargids
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - FERVER
  • PSC - 16 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/19/2008
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fertaline
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from volcanic rock
  • Landform: smooth, gently sloping alluvial fan
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/13/1969 (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

    ARTEM

    POSE

    Artemisia

    Poa secunda

    sagebrush

    Sandberg bluegrass

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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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    1650

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    A11—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C00483
    A12—2 to 8 centimeters (0.8 to 3.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; moderate very thin platy structure; slightly hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C00484
    A&B—8 to 16 centimeters (3.1 to 6.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; clay; weak very thin platy, and strong very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 10 percent thin clay bridges; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C00485
    B2t—16 to 41 centimeters (6.3 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; clay; fine and medium angular blocky, and strong medium prismatic structure; extremely hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 30 percent pressure faces on all faces of peds; 8 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C00486
    B3tca—41 to 46 centimeters (16.1 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 30 percent pressure faces on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 69C00487
    C1sicam—46 to 55 centimeters (18.1 to 21.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; extremely hard, very firm; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 30 percent thick clay films; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue.