IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blackcan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005NV017009
  • User Pedon ID: S2005NV017009
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005NV017009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0671
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17883
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 37.7713509
  • Std. Longitude: -114.6411209
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Road south of Black Canyon.
  • Map Unit: 2320—Blackcan 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-G6—The Bluffs, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Mosley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic, shallow Xeric Haplodurids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blackcan
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic, shallow Xeric Haplodurids
  • PSC - 0 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/6/2004
  • 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: alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landform: fan remnant
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 50.00 percent nonflat indurated 2- to 75-millimeter mixed, 10.00 percent nonflat indurated 75- to 250-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R029XY008NV SHALLOW CALCAREOUS LOAM 8-12 P.Z.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/6/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 239
  • 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

    ARNO4

    EPNE

    PLJA

    Artemisia nova

    Ephedra nevadensis

    Pleuraphis jamesii

    black sagebrush

    Nevada jointfir

    James' galleta

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

    duripan

    indurated

    36 - 152

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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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    229

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 18 percent clay; strong very thick platy parts to moderate very thin platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 4.0 very fine vesicular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-160-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03850; observed in pit, small
    Bk—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 16 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent platy moderately coherent cemented carbonate nodules on bottom of rock fragments; 45 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03851; observed in pit, small
    Bkq—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 12 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent platy moderately coherent cemented carbonate nodules on bottom of rock fragments; 10 percent by volume flat strongly coherent cemented 5-40-75 millimeter duripan fragments fragments and 45 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-35-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5, pH meter; very abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03852; observed in pit, small
    Bkqm1—36 to 66 centimeters (14.2 to 26.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), moist; cemented material; massive; very rigid, very rigid, indurated by silica and carbonates; brittle; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03853; observed in pit, small
    Bkqm2—66 to 92 centimeters (26.0 to 36.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), moist; cemented material; moderate thick platy structure; very rigid, very rigid, strongly coherent by carbonates and silica; brittle; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03854; observed in pit, small
    Bkqm3—92 to 152 centimeters (36.2 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), moist; cemented material; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm, moderately coherent by carbonates and silica; brittle; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 05N03855; observed in pit, small