IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sodhouse
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005NV007011
  • User Pedon ID: S2005NV007011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0252
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17987
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 40.8974152
  • Std. Longitude: -114.8536377
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35N.
  • Range: 63E.
  • Section: 21
  • Location Description: Site is located south of the Wood Hills between Independence Valley and Clover Valley; about 2.25 miles east of the Tobar railroad siding;
  • Map Unit: 496—Sodhouse-Linoyer 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: 40114-H7—Snow Water Lake NE, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Paul W. Blackburn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic, shallow Typic Haplodurids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sodhouse
  • PSC - 25 to 40 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/29/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sodhouse
  • Classificaton Date - 9/30/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from mixed sources with loess and volcanic ash
  • Landscape: fan piedmont
  • Landform: fan remnant
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 20.00 percent nonflat 2- to 76-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R028BY084NV COARSE SILTY 6-8 P.Z.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/30/2005 (entry creation date)
  • Plant Association Name: R028BY084NV COARSE SILTY 6-8 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
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    duripan

    indurated

    40 - 70

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

    ochric epipedon

    secondary carbonates

    duripan

    0—20

    0—40

    40—70

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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

    2

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    —

    1750

    —

    185

    178

    —

    110

    8.9

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; gravelly loam; moderate thick platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 10.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 10.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 1 percent medium and coarse carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 30 percent by volume 2-40-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00971; observed in pit, small
    A2—5 to 20 centimeters (2.0 to 7.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; gravelly loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent medium and coarse carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 25 percent by volume 2-40-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00972; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; gravelly loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent medium and coarse carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 25 percent by volume 2-40-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00973; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—33 to 40 centimeters (13.0 to 15.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; gravelly loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 10.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent medium and coarse carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 30 percent by volume 2-40-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00974; observed in pit, small
    2Bkqm—40 to 70 centimeters (15.7 to 27.6 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), moist; cemented material; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm, indurated by silica and carbonates; 0.5 very fine roots in cracks; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 06N00975; observed in pit, small