IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Qwynn
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005NV017007
  • User Pedon ID: S2005NV017007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005NV017007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0668
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17880
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 38.3291206
  • Std. Longitude: -114.5741806
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6 N
  • Range: 66 E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: northeast quarter of the northeast quarter
  • Location Description: 50 feet east of road to the gravel pit; .25 mile north of Pony Springs road and 1.6 miles east of Highway 93.
  • Map Unit: 1154—Qwynn-Ragnel association
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV017—Lincoln
  • MLRA: 28A—Ancient Lake Bonneville
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV784—Lincoln County, Nevada, North Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38114-C5—Pony Springs, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Curt Leet
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Durinodic Xeric Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Qwynn
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Durinodic Xeric Haplargids
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/2003
  • 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: alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landform: fan skirt
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • 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
    R028AY015NV LOAMY 8-10 P.Z.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 87
  • 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

    AGCR

    ARTRW

    ERNAN5

    Agropyron cristatum

    Artemisia tridentata var. wyomingensis

    Ericameria nauseosa ssp. nauseosa var. nauseosa

    crested wheatgrass

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    rubber rabbitbrush

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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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    1818

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    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; silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate thick platy parts to weak thin platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular and 0.5 medium vesicular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03836; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; strong medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine to medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03837; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; loam; 24 percent clay; strong medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 3.0 fine and medium roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 55 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03838; observed in pit, small
    Btkq1—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; loam; 24 percent clay; strong medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine to medium roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent cylindrical moderately coherent cemented durinodes throughout and 2 percent platy carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03839; observed in pit, small
    Btkq2—58 to 94 centimeters (22.8 to 37.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; sandy loam; 18 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent distinct clay bridges between sand grains and 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent cylindrical moderately coherent cemented durinodes throughout and 2 percent faint threadlike carbonate masses on surfaces along root channels; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03840; observed in pit, small
    2Btkq3—94 to 112 centimeters (37.0 to 44.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 14 percent clay; massive; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent cylindrical moderately coherent cemented durinodes throughout and 1 percent faint threadlike carbonate masses on surfaces along root channels; 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03841; observed in pit, small
    2C—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly loamy sand; 5 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 20.0 very fine to medium irregular pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 05N03842; observed in pit, small