IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Devada
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001NV771003
  • User Pedon ID: S2001NV031007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2001NV771003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0109
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15962
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 40.3584900
  • Std. Longitude: -119.9743576
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 29N.
  • Range: 18E.
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: about 415 meters east and 312 meters south of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Site is east of Skedaddle Creek.
  • Map Unit: 137—Devada-Tunnison-Rock outcrop 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-C8—Parker Canyon, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joseph V. Chiaretti
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, mesic Lithic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Devada
  • PSC - 5 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/26/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Devada
  • Classificaton Date - 8/23/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium over residuum weathered from basalt
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: beveled summit position on plateau
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent basalt at 41cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent nonflat subangular 2- to 75-millimeter basalt, 40.00 percent nonflat subangular 250- to 600-millimeter basalt, 20.00 percent nonflat subangular 75- to 250-millimeter basalt,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/23/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: CLAYPAN 10-14 P.Z. (023XY031NV)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    PSSPS

    POSE

    ARAR8

    ELEL5

    TECA2

    BAHO

    EPVI

    ACTH7

    Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. spicata

    Poa secunda

    Artemisia arbuscula

    Elymus elymoides

    Tetradymia canescens

    Balsamorhiza hookeri

    Ephedra viridis

    Achnatherum thurberianum

    bluebunch wheatgrass

    Sandberg bluegrass

    little sagebrush

    squirreltail

    spineless horsebrush

    Hooker's balsamroot

    mormon tea

    Thurber's needlegrass

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

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    41 -

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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—23

    5—41

    41—

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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

    15

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    1528

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    210

    279

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    80

    8.3

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    9.3

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; extremely stony loam; 16 percent clay; moderate thick platy parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 4.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 4.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter basalt fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00288; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular 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; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00289; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; clay; 45 percent clay; strong medium prismatic structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 4.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 10 percent distinct pressure faces on vertical faces of peds and 15 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N00290; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; gravelly clay; 52 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; high excavation difficulty; 4.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 25 percent distinct pressure faces on vertical faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume moderately coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter basalt fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N00291; observed in pit, small
    R—41 centimeters (16.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small