IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ursine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005NV017010
  • User Pedon ID: S2005NV017010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005NV017010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0672
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17884
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 38.6768951
  • Std. Longitude: -114.3469543
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 N
  • Range: 68 E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: southeast quarter of the southeast quarter
  • Location Description: 20 feet east of Shoshone road; 100 feet south of Lincoln County Line; 1 mile south of John's Wash.
  • Map Unit: 1381—Ursine-Armespan 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-F3—Red Ledges, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Curt Leet
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic, shallow Xeric Haplodurids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ursine
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic, shallow Xeric Haplodurids
  • PSC - 25 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 5 percent of surface of Microbiotic crust


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: limestone dominated 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: 30.00 percent nonflat indurated 2- to 75-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
    R028AY013NV SHALLOW CALCAREOUS LOAM 8-10 P.Z.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/24/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 249
  • 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

    ARNO4

    CHVI8

    ELEL5

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Artemisia nova

    Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus

    Elymus elymoides

    Indian ricegrass

    black sagebrush

    yellow rabbitbrush

    squirreltail

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

    duripan

    indurated

    46 - 196

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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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    1862

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    203

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak thick platy parts to moderate medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular and 0.5 medium vesicular pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03856; observed in pit, small
    A2—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; gravelly fine sandy loam; 10 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03857; observed in pit, small
    Bk—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 10 percent clay; moderate fine and 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 and fine tubular and 0.5 medium tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-160-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, cresol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03858; observed in pit, small
    Bkq—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 10 percent clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; brittle; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent platy weakly coherent cemented carbonate nodules on bottom of rock fragments and carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-160-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat indurated 75-160-250 millimeter duripan fragments fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-40-75 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat indurated 5-40-75 millimeter duripan fragments fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-3-5 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, cresol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03859; observed in pit, small
    Bkqm1—46 to 94 centimeters (18.1 to 37.0 inches); white (10YR 8/1), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist; cemented material; strong very thick platy structure; very rigid, very rigid, indurated by silica and carbonates; 0.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N03860; observed in pit, small
    Bkqm2—94 to 196 centimeters (37.0 to 77.2 inches); white (10YR 8/1), very pale brown (10YR 8/2), moist; cemented material; massive; very rigid, very rigid, very strongly coherent by carbonates and silica; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, cresol red. Lab sample # 05N03861; observed in pit, small