IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): RUHE
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978NV031005
  • User Pedon ID: S1978NV031005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1978NV031005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0594
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46148
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 39.9315567
  • Std. Longitude: -119.3946075
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24N
  • Range: 23E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 2600 feet west and 1200 feet north 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: Mixed, mesic Typic Torripsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - RUHE
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/2005
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ruhe
  • Classificaton Date - 9/18/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy alluvium
  • Landform: terrace
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: tufa
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/18/1978 (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

    KRASC

    PICRO

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Krascheninnikovia

    Picrothamnus

    Indian ricegrass

    shadscale saltbush

    winterfat

    bud sagebrush

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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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    1236

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    180

    150

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    12

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    A11—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly loamy sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P03518
    A12—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly loamy sand; weak coarse platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P03519
    Cac1—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loamy sand; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 21.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P03520
    2Cr2—36 to 89 centimeters (14.2 to 35.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1), very pale brown (10YR 7/4), moist; bedrock; massive; extremely hard; brittle; 3.0 very fine roots in cracks and 3.0 medium roots in cracks; fragments; violent effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, thymol-blue; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 78P03521
    3Cac3—89 to 130 centimeters (35.0 to 51.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; stratified stratified very cobbly coarse sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine interstitial and 21.0 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 78P03522