IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Richinde
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005NV017003
  • User Pedon ID: S2005NV017003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005NV017003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0664
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17876
  • 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: 37.8371811
  • Std. Longitude: -114.9091797
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1.5 miles northeast of Rattlesnake Spring; 20 feet west of road.
  • Map Unit: 1885—Richinde-Chubard-Richinde, very stony 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-G8—Wheatgrass Spring, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Curt Leet
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy-skeletal, glassy, mesic Lithic Xeric Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Richinde
  • Taxonomic Class - Ashy-skeletal, glassy, mesic Lithic Xeric Haplargids
  • PSC - 8 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/7/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from welded tuff over residuum weathered from welded tuff
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 0
  • Bedrock: indurated tuff, welded at 38cm
  • Surface Fragments: 40.00 percent nonflat indurated 2- to 75-millimeter tuff, welded, 2.00 percent nonflat indurated 250- to 610-millimeter tuff, welded, 10.00 percent nonflat indurated 75- 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
    R029XY073NV BOULDERY SLOPE 8-12 P.Z.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/7/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 215
  • 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

    ARIST

    ARTRW

    BRTE

    ELEL5

    EPVI

    PLJA

    PUST

    SPCO

    Aristida

    Artemisia tridentata var. wyomingensis

    Bromus tectorum

    Elymus elymoides

    Ephedra viridis

    Pleuraphis jamesii

    Purshia stansburiana

    Sphaeralcea coccinea

    threeawn

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    cheatgrass

    squirreltail

    mormon tea

    James' galleta

    Stansbury cliffrose

    scarlet globemallow

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    38 -

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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

    4

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    1609

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    120

    229

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 14 percent clay; weak very thick platy parts to strong fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; 10.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-3-5 millimeter tuff, welded fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 5-40-75 millimeter tuff, welded fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03818; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly sandy clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; 26 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume nonflat 5-40-75 millimeter tuff, welded fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat 2-3-5 millimeter tuff, welded fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03819; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly sandy clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 26 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent by volume nonflat 5-40-75 millimeter tuff, welded fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat 2-3-5 millimeter tuff, welded fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH meter; very abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03820; observed in pit, small
    R—38 to 39 centimeters (15.0 to 15.4 inches); unweathered bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small