IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wylo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001NV771004
  • User Pedon ID: S2001NV031002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2001NV771004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0102
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15955
  • Print Date: 1/29/2025

    • 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: 40.5620995
  • Std. Longitude: -119.8665771
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31N.
  • Range: 19E.
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: about 433 meters west and 787 meters south of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Site is located west of the Smoke Creek Desert and about 1 mile southeast of Burro Mountain Pass.
  • Map Unit: 271—Wylo-Pickup-Bucklake association
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV031—Washoe
  • MLRA: 23—Malheur High Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV771—Washoe County, Nevada, Central Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40119-E7—Salt Marsh, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joseph V. Chiaretti
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, smectitic, mesic Lithic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wylo
  • PSC - 8 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/26/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wylo
  • Classificaton Date - 10/3/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium over residuum weathered from basalt
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: structural bench
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated slight weathered basalt at 38cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat subrounded- to 600-millimeter basalt, 50.00 percent nonflat subrounded 2- to 75-millimeter basalt, 3.00 percent nonflat subrounded 250- to 600-millimeter basalt, 25.00 percent nonflat subrounded 75- to 250-millimeter basalt,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/3/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: CLAY SLOPE 8-12 P.Z. (023XY037NV)
  • 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

    ARARL3

    ELEL5

    GRSP

    POSE

    Artemisia arbuscula ssp. longicaulis

    Elymus elymoides

    Grayia spinosa

    Poa secunda

    little sagebrush

    squirreltail

    spiny hopsage

    Sandberg bluegrass

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    38 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—18

    8—38

    38—

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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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    1510

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    56

    279

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    80

    8.9

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    9.9

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; very gravelly ashy loam; 22 percent clay; moderate thick platy parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 4.0 very fine roots and 4.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 4.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine vesicular pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 20-48-75 millimeter basalt fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 75-162-250 millimeter basalt fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subrounded 2-11-20 millimeter basalt fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00255; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; gravelly ashy clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 4.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 4.0 fine roots; 4.0 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores and 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00256; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly clay; 42 percent clay; moderate fine and medium prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; high excavation difficulty; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 4.0 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct pressure faces on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N00257; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Btq—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; very cobbly clay; 50 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; high excavation difficulty; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 4.0 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent prominent silica coats on bottom of rock fragments and 15 percent distinct clay films on rock fragments and 30 percent distinct pressure faces on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N00258; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    R—38 centimeters (15.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.; dry when described; observed in pit, small