IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pookaloo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005NV007003
  • User Pedon ID: S2005NV007003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005NV007003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0244
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17979
  • 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: 41.0737572
  • Std. Longitude: -114.8018723
  • 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, mesic Lithic Xeric Haplocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pookaloo
  • PSC - 25 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/29/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pookaloo
  • 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
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent dolomite (dolostone) at 43cm
  • Surface Fragments: 60.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter dolomite (dolostone), 1.00 percent nonflat 250- to 610-millimeter dolomite (dolostone), 5.00 percent nonflat 75- to 250-millimeter dolomite (dolostone),
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/9/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: R028BY060NV PIMO-JUOS WSG: 0R4
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • 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

    ARNO4

    ACHY

    Pinus monophylla

    Juniperus osteosperma

    Artemisia nova

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    singleleaf pinyon

    Utah juniper

    black sagebrush

    Indian ricegrass

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

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    43 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—8

    8—43

    43—

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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

    27

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    1896

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    165

    305

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    100

    7.8

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak very thick platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-135-250 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-36-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00931; observed in pit, small. fragment weights at sampling: Total weight = 47 lb 19-75 mm = 10 lb 75-250 mm = 1 lb
    Bk1—8 to 22 centimeters (3.1 to 8.7 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent coarse carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-135-250 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-36-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00932; observed in pit, small. fragment weights at sampling: Total weight = 39 lb 19-75 mm = 9 lb 75-250 mm = 0 lb
    Bk2—22 to 35 centimeters (8.7 to 13.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent coarse carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-135-250 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments and 45 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-36-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00933; observed in pit, small. fragment weights at sampling: Total weight = 33 lb 19-75 mm = 10 lb 75-250 mm = 16 lb
    Bk3—35 to 43 centimeters (13.8 to 16.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 8 percent clay; strong thick platy structure; very hard, extremely firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 20 percent coarse carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments and 40 percent coarse carbonate nodules in matrix; 55 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-36-75 millimeter dolomite (dolostone) fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 06N00934; observed in pit, small. fragment weights at sampling: Total weight = 20 lb 19-75 mm = 3 lb 75-250 mm = 0 lb
    R—43 centimeters (16.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small