IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Puett
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005NV007006
  • User Pedon ID: S2005NV007006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005NV007006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0247
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17982
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 41.0629730
  • Std. Longitude: -115.5655289
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 19 miles northeast of Elko and east of Coal Mine Canyon Road
  • Map Unit: 1279—Wieland-Kelk-Puett association
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV007—Elko
  • MLRA: 25—Owyhee High Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV767—Elko County, Nevada, Central Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41115-A5—Coal Mine Canyon SE, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Paul W. Blackburn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic, shallow Xeric Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Puett
  • PSC - 25 to 50 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/29/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Puett
  • Classificaton Date - 8/11/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from tuffaceous sandstone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: backslope hill
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent slight weathered sandstone, volcanic at 50cm
  • Geology: Humboldt formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 20.00 percent nonflat 2- to 76-millimeter 5.00 percent nonflat 76- to 250-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R025XY025NV CHALKY KNOLL

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/11/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: R025XY025NV CHALKY KNOLL
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • 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

    ARNO4

    ARTRW8

    BRTE

    CHRYS9

    ELELE

    POSE

    PUTR2

    Artemisia nova

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

    Bromus tectorum

    Chrysothamnus

    Elymus elymoides ssp. elymoides

    Poa secunda

    Purshia tridentata

    black sagebrush

    Wyoming big sagebrush

    cheatgrass

    rabbitbrush

    squirreltail

    Sandberg bluegrass

    antelope bitterbrush

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    weakly coherent

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

    ochric epipedon

    paralithic contact

    0—20

    50—

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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

    45

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    1719

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    315

    229

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; gravelly loam; weak thin platy parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 2.0 fine roots; 5.0 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-37-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00948; observed in pit, small
    A2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; gravelly fine sandy loam; 8 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots; 5.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 5-41-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00949; observed in pit, small
    C1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; very paragravelly very fine sandy loam; 8 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 5.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat very strongly coherent cemented 2-37-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat very weakly coherent cemented 2-37-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00950; observed in pit, small. 5% of gravel size fragments in C1 are not paralithic fragments
    C2—38 to 50 centimeters (15.0 to 19.7 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; fine sandy loam; 8 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat very weakly coherent cemented 2-37-76 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00951; observed in pit, small. Gravel in C2 are paralithic fragments easily broken between thumb and forefinger
    Cr—50 to 58 centimeters (19.7 to 22.8 inches); bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 06N00952; observed in pit, small