IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Quarz
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005NV007010
  • User Pedon ID: S2005NV007010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005NV007010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0251
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17986
  • 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: 41.3054848
  • Std. Longitude: -115.3726578
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 40N.
  • Range: 58E.
  • Section: 36
  • Location Description: about 17 miles north-northwest of Deeth
  • Map Unit: 1725—Quarz-Cleavage-Loncan 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-C3—Hot Springs Creek, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Paul W. Blackburn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, smectitic, frigid Aridic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Quarz
  • PSC - 20 to 55 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/29/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Quarz
  • Classificaton Date - 8/4/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium and residuum derived from welded tuff
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: backslope mountain
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent tuff, welded at 55cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 20.00 percent nonflat 2- to 76-millimeter tuff, welded, 1.00 percent nonflat 250- to 610-millimeter tuff, welded, 15.00 percent nonflat 76- to 250-millimeter tuff, welded,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R025XY009NV SOUTH SLOPE 12-14 P.Z.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/4/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: R025XY009NV SOUTH SLOPE 12-14 P.Z.
  • 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

    ARTRV

    FEID

    LECI4

    POSE

    PUTR2

    ACTH7

    AMELA

    SYMPH

    ROSA5

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana

    Festuca idahoensis

    Leymus cinereus

    Poa secunda

    Purshia tridentata

    Achnatherum thurberianum

    Amelanchier

    Symphoricarpos

    Rosa

    mountain big sagebrush

    Idaho fescue

    basin wildrye

    Sandberg bluegrass

    antelope bitterbrush

    Thurber's needlegrass

    serviceberry

    snowberry

    rose

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

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    55 -

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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—41

    20—55

    55—

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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

    30

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    2048

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    225

    305

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    90

    6.7

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 76-163-250 millimeter tuff, welded fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat 20-48-76 millimeter tuff, welded fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-11-20 millimeter tuff, welded fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00967; observed in pit, small
    A2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; very gravelly sandy clay loam; 21 percent clay; moderate medium platy parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine irregular and 3.0 fine irregular pores; 5 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 5 percent by volume nonflat 76-163-250 millimeter tuff, welded fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 20-48-76 millimeter tuff, welded fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-11-20 millimeter tuff, welded fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00968; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; very gravelly sandy clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 5 percent by volume nonflat 76-163-250 millimeter tuff, welded fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-11-20 millimeter tuff, welded fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat 20-48-76 millimeter tuff, welded fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00969; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—40 to 55 centimeters (15.7 to 21.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly clay; 42 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; 40 percent prominent clay films on surfaces along pores and 40 percent distinct clay bridges between sand grains; 5 percent by volume nonflat 76-163-250 millimeter tuff, welded fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 20-48-76 millimeter tuff, welded fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat 2-11-20 millimeter tuff, welded fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 06N00970; observed in pit, small
    R—55 centimeters (21.7 inches); unweathered bedrock; 10 percent prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films; fragments.; observed in pit, small