IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cavehill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005NV007002
  • User Pedon ID: S2005NV007002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005NV007002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0243
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17978
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 41.0718689
  • Std. Longitude: -114.8029022
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 37N.
  • Range: 63E.
  • Section: 24
  • Location Description: Site is located west of Independence Valley and about 2.75 miles south of the Moor Summit exit from I-80 in a short, east-west canyon that is in the northeastern part of the Wood Hills.
  • Map Unit: 575—Pookaloo-Cavehill-Rock outcrop association
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV007—Elko
  • MLRA: 28B—Central Nevada Basin and Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV766—Elko County, Nevada, Southeast Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41114-A7—Moor Summit, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joseph V. Chiaretti
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, frigid Typic Calcixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Cavehill
  • PSC - 28 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/29/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cavehill
  • Classificaton Date - 8/9/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium over residuum weathered from limestone and dolomite
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: backslope hill
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent dolomite (dolostone) at 101cm
  • Surface Fragments: 40.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter dolomite (dolostone), 5.00 percent nonflat 75- to 250-millimeter dolomite (dolostone),
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F028BY058NV PIMO-CELE3/ARTRV/PSSPS-POFE

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/9/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: F028BY058NV Pinus monophylla/Cercocarpus
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    PIMO

    JUOS

    CELE3

    Pinus monophylla

    Juniperus osteosperma

    Cercocarpus ledifolius

    singleleaf pinyon

    Utah juniper

    curl-leaf mountain mahogany

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

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    101 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    lithic contact

    3—33

    33—101

    101—

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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

    37

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    1920

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    330

    356

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    80

    6.7

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    7.7

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), black (10YR 2/1), moist; slightly decomposed plant material; massive; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00925; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A1—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly loam; 10 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-?-76 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-5 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00926; dry when described; observed in pit, small. fragment weights at sampling: Total weight = 19 lb 19-75 mm = 1 lb 75-250 mm = 0 lb
    A2—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly loam; 12 percent clay; moderate coarse granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent fine and medium carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-?-76 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-5 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00927; dry when described; observed in pit, small. fragment weights at sampling: Total weight = 16 lb 19-75 mm = 1 lb 75-250 mm = 0 lb
    Bk1—33 to 49 centimeters (13.0 to 19.3 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly loam; 12 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 very coarse roots and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 25 percent medium carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 76-?-250 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-?-76 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-5 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00928; dry when described; observed in pit, small. fragment weights at sampling: Total weight = 23 lb 19-75 mm = 3 lb 75-250 mm = 0 lb
    Bk2—49 to 85 centimeters (19.3 to 33.5 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; very gravelly loam; 10 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 50 percent coarse carbonate masses in matrix and 25 percent medium carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 76-?-250 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-5 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-?-76 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00929; dry when described; observed in pit, small. fragment weights at sampling: Total weight = 30 lb 19-75 mm = 4 lb 75-250 mm = 0 lb
    Bk3—85 to 101 centimeters (33.5 to 39.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very gravelly loam; 8 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent coarse carbonate masses in matrix and 10 percent medium carbonate nodules on bottom of rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 76-?-250 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-?-5 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-?-76 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00930; dry when described; observed in pit, small. fragment weights at sampling: Total weight = 30 lb 19-75 mm = 5 lb 75-250 mm = 1 lb
    R—101 centimeters (39.8 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small