IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zimbob
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005NV007008
  • User Pedon ID: S2005NV007008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005NV007008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0249
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17984
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 41.0511093
  • Std. Longitude: -114.7608032
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 37N.
  • Range: 64E.
  • Section: 32
  • Location Description: Site is located between Independence Valley and the Wood Hills.
  • Map Unit: 975—Tecomar-Zimbob 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 #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Zimbob
  • PSC - 0 to 33 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/29/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zimbob
  • Classificaton Date - 8/9/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium and residuum derived from limestone
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: backslope hill
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 33cm
  • Surface Fragments: 65.00 percent nonflat 2- to 76-millimeter limestone, unspecified, 5.00 percent nonflat 250- to 610-millimeter limestone, unspecified, 10.00 percent nonflat 76- to 250-millimeter limestone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R028BY016NV SHALLOW CALCAREOUS SLOPE 8-10 P.Z.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/9/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: R028BY016NV SHALLOW CALCAREOUS SLOPE
  • 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

    ATCO

    HECOC8

    JUOS

    POSE

    PSSPS

    Artemisia nova

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Hesperostipa comata ssp. comata

    Juniperus osteosperma

    Poa secunda

    Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. spicata

    black sagebrush

    shadscale saltbush

    needle and thread

    Utah juniper

    Sandberg bluegrass

    bluebunch wheatgrass

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

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    33 -

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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—33

    33—

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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

    19

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    1798

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    250

    305

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    100

    8.3

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; very gravelly loam; 14 percent clay; weak medium platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine vesicular and 3.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 76-163-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat 5-48-76 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat 2-3-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00958; observed in pit, small. fragment weights at sampling: Total weight = 35 lb 19-75 mm = 11 lb 75-250 mm = 7 lb
    Bk1—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very gravelly loam; 12 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent coarse carbonate nodules on bottom of rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat 76-163-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat 2-3-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat 5-48-76 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00959; observed in pit, small. fragment weights at sampling: Total weight = 22 lb 19-75 mm = 8 lb 75-250 mm = 0 lb
    Bk2—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; very gravelly loam; 14 percent clay; weak 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; 3.0 fine interstitial pores; 40 percent coarse carbonate nodules around rock fragments; 15 percent by volume nonflat 76-163-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat 2-3-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat 5-48-76 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 06N00960; observed in pit, small. fragment weights at sampling: Total weight = 17 lb 19-75 mm = 7 lb 75-250 mm = 0 lb
    R—33 centimeters (13.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small