IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kyler
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005NV017004
  • User Pedon ID: S2005NV017004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005NV017004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0665
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17877
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 37.9049606
  • Std. Longitude: -114.6872330
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Hill slope near the road to Ely Springs.
  • Map Unit: 3673—Kyler, very stony-Rock outcrop-Kyler 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-H6—Ely Springs, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Mosley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic Lithic Xeric Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kyler
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic Lithic Xeric Torriorthents
  • PSC - 0 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/25/2004
  • 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 limestone over residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Wet Soil Moisture Duration: 0
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 28cm
  • 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
    R029XY160NV LIMESTONE SLOPE 8-10 P.Z.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/25/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    FAPA

    PLJA

    PUST

    YUCCA

    Fallugia paradoxa

    Pleuraphis jamesii

    Purshia stansburiana

    Yucca

    Apache plume

    James' galleta

    Stansbury cliffrose

    yucca

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

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    28 -

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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

    25

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    1582

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    330

    203

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly very fine sandy loam; 12 percent clay; moderate medium platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-160-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-40-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-3-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03821; observed in pit, small
    Bk—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly very fine sandy loam; 14 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 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; carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-160-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-3-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-40-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03822; observed in pit, small
    R—28 centimeters (11.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small