IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): STINGDORN
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978NV031004
  • User Pedon ID: S1978NV031004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1978NV031004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0593
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46147
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 39.9782257
  • Std. Longitude: -119.2501602
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24N
  • Range: 23E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 2200 feet north and 2000 feet west of the southeast corner
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV031—Washoe
  • MLRA: 27—Fallon-Lovelock Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV628—Washoe County, Nevada, South Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D.W. Baumer & J.B. Fisher
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic, shallow Typic Durargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - STINGDORN
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/2005
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Stingdorn
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum
  • Landform: tilted plateau
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: rhyolite
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/13/1978 (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

    ATCO

    GRSP

    PICRO

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Grayia spinosa

    Picrothamnus

    Indian ricegrass

    shadscale saltbush

    spiny hopsage

    bud sagebrush

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    duripan

    30—33

    0—-1
    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

    17

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    1646

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    180

    150

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    12

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; extremely stony loam; weak medium platy, and weak thick platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine vesicular and 3.0 fine vesicular pores; 5 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P03514; dry when described;
    Bt2—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, weakly coherent by silica, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 21.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 fine tubular pores; 75 percent thin clay films on all faces of peds and 75 percent thin clay films on surfaces along pores; 55 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P03515; dry when described;
    Casc1—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; extremely gravelly sandy loam; massive; hard, nonsticky, nonplastic; brittle; 3.0 very fine roots in cracks and 3.0 fine roots in cracks; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 21.0 fine interstitial pores; 75 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03516; dry when described;
    Cascm2—30 to 33 centimeters (11.8 to 13.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2) cemented material; fragments. Lab sample # 78P03517; dry when described;
    R—33 centimeters (13.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.; dry when described;