IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Breko
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973NV009003
  • User Pedon ID: S1973NV009003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1973NV009003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 73C0056
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44690
  • 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: 37.5396690
  • Std. Longitude: -117.4942474
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5S
  • Range: 40E
  • Section: 1
  • Location Description: Fish Lake Valley in the Palmetto Mountains .5 miles west of road from Goldfield Valley to Silverpark in an unsurveyed township
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV009—Esmeralda
  • MLRA: 29—Southern Nevada Basin and Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV796—Esmeralda County Area, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. B. Summerfield, E. L. Spencer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, smectitic, mesic Xerollic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Breko
  • PSC - 20 to 51 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Unnamed
  • Classificaton Date - 6/23/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/23/1973 (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

    ACHY

    ARTR2

    CHVI8

    ELELB2

    EPNE

    GRAYI

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Artemisia tridentata

    Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus

    Elymus elymoides ssp. brevifolius

    Ephedra nevadensis

    Grayia

    Indian ricegrass

    big sagebrush

    yellow rabbitbrush

    squirreltail

    Nevada jointfir

    hopsage

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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

    7

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    1933

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    A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; stony loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 25 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 73C00379
    A12—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; weak thick platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 73C00380
    A13—10 to 15 centimeters (3.9 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 73C00381
    B1—15 to 20 centimeters (5.9 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 73C00382
    B21t—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; on surfaces along pores and 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 73C00383
    B22t—40 to 51 centimeters (15.7 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; gravelly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; between sand grains and 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 73C00384
    B3—51 to 70 centimeters (20.1 to 27.6 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films between sand grains; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 73C00385
    Csica—70 to 105 centimeters (27.6 to 41.3 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 45 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 73C00386