IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Saltydog
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005NV017001
  • User Pedon ID: S2005NV017001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005NV017001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0662
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17874
  • 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: 37.8713493
  • Std. Longitude: -114.7569580
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 64 E
  • Range: 1 S
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: Northwest quarter of the southeast quarter
  • Location Description: Dry Lake Valley, 50 feet south of jeep trail; 2.2 miles west of Ely Spring Ranch road and 2.5 miles southwest of Ely Springs Ranch.
  • Map Unit: 3192—Saltydog-Ambush-Panacker association
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV017—Lincoln
  • MLRA: 29—Southern Nevada Basin and Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV784—Lincoln County, Nevada, North Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37114-G7—Deadman Spring SE, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Curt Leet
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Haplocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Saltydog
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Haplocalcids
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/5/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 40 percent of surface of microbiotic crust - lichen and 10 percent of surface of microbiotic crust - cyanobacteria


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landform: alluvial flat
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: rare ponding for brief periods begining in feb
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 15
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R029XY159NV DEEP SILTY 5-8 P.Z.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/5/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 217
  • 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

    ACHY

    ATCO

    ELEL5

    KOAM

    PLJA

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Elymus elymoides

    Kochia americana

    Pleuraphis jamesii

    Indian ricegrass

    shadscale saltbush

    squirreltail

    green molly

    James' galleta

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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

    1

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    1410

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    178

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) crushed, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, moist; loam; 16 percent clay; strong very thick platy parts to weak very thin platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 10.0 very fine and fine vesicular and 3.0 medium vesicular and 0.5 coarse vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03807; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) crushed, moist; loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 0.5 medium and coarse tubular and 0.5 medium and coarse interstitial pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03808; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) crushed, moist; loam; 16 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 0.5 medium and coarse interstitial and 0.5 medium and coarse tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03809; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—43 to 89 centimeters (16.9 to 35.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) crushed, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, moist; very fine sandy loam; 12 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 0.5 medium and coarse interstitial and 0.5 medium and coarse tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03810; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—89 to 117 centimeters (35.0 to 46.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) crushed, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, moist; sandy loam; 16 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 3.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 0.5 medium and coarse interstitial and 0.5 medium and coarse tubular pores; carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.1, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03811; observed in pit, small
    2C—117 to 165 centimeters (46.1 to 65.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, moist; gravelly sand; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine and fine interstitial and 0.5 medium and coarse interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat 5-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.5, pH meter. Lab sample # 05N03812; observed in pit, small