IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mormount
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974NV017003
  • User Pedon ID: S1974NV017003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1974NV017003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 74C0157
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44918
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 37.2849770
  • Std. Longitude: -114.2283249
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8S
  • Range: 69E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: approximately 1500 feet south and 1200 feet west of the north quarter corner
  • Location Description: in the Tule Desert in southeastern Lincoln County about three-fourth mile north of the east cattleguard on the main west to east transverse road
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV017—Lincoln
  • MLRA: 30—Mojave Basin and Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV754—Lincoln County, Nevada, South Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. J. Borup
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Petrocalcic Ustollic Paleargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Mormount
  • PSC - 15 to 29 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Skyhaven Family
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/1974
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/1974 (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

    CORA

    Coleogyne ramosissima

    blackbrush

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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

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; gravelly sandy loam; weak medium platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 fine interstitial and vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 74C00913
    B1—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 74C00914
    B2t—15 to 29 centimeters (5.9 to 11.4 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 74C00915
    B3ca—29 to 47 centimeters (11.4 to 18.5 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly clay loam; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 74C00916
    C1casim—47 to 55 centimeters (18.5 to 21.7 inches); fragments; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 74C00917
    C2ca—55 to 107 centimeters (21.7 to 42.1 inches); white (10YR 8/1), light gray (10YR 7/2), moist; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 74C00918