IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pyrat
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005NV033001
  • User Pedon ID: S2005NV033001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2005NV033001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0253
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17988
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 39.9915848
  • Std. Longitude: -114.6784439
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 189—Pyrat-Linoyer association
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV033—White Pine
  • MLRA: 28B—Central Nevada Basin and Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV780—Western White Pine County Area, Nevada, Parts of White Pine and Eureka Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39114-H6—Cherry Spring, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: IJR-PWB-JVC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Durinodic Xeric Haplocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pyrat
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/29/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pyrat
  • Classificaton Date - 9/30/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from limestone and volcanic rock
  • Landscape: fan piedmont
  • Landform: fan remnant
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 50.00 percent nonflat 2- to 76-millimeter limestone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R028BY010NV LOAMY 8-10 P.Z.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/30/2005 (entry creation date)
  • Plant Association Name: R028BY010NV LOAMY 8-10 P.Z.
  • 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

    ARTRW

    CHVI8

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Artemisia tridentata var. wyomingensis

    Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus

    Indian ricegrass

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    yellow rabbitbrush

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    calcic horizon

    durinodes

    gypsum accumulations

    0—5

    5—99

    43—99

    68—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

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    1828

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    254

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    115

    9.4

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly sandy loam; moderate thick platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 5.0 very fine vesicular pores; 2 percent medium carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 15 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-76 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00976; observed in pit, small. fragment weights at sampling: Total weight = 42 lb 19-75 mm = 4 lb 75-250 mm = 0 lb
    Bk1—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine interstitial and 5.0 very fine tubular pores; 25 percent medium carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 15 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-76 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00977; observed in pit, small. fragment weights at sampling: Total weight = 39 lb 19-75 mm = 5 lb 75-250 mm = 0 lb
    Bk2—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots and 5.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots and 5.0 coarse roots; 5.0 very fine tubular and 5.0 very fine interstitial pores; 25 percent medium carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments; 40 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-76 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 06N00978; observed in pit, small. fragment weights at sampling: Total weight = 30 lb 19-75 mm = 4 lb 75-250 mm = 0 lb
    Bk3—43 to 68 centimeters (16.9 to 26.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist; very gravelly loam; massive; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments and 25 percent carbonate masses around rock fragments and 5 percent coarse and very coarse strongly coherent cemented durinodes throughout; 40 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-76 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; 10 percent krotovinas (volume percent); violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 06N00979; observed in pit, small. fragment weights at sampling: Total weight = 42 lb 19-75 mm = 6 lb 75-250 mm = 0 lb
    Bkq—68 to 99 centimeters (26.8 to 39.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; massive; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5.0 very fine interstitial pores; 1 percent threadlike gypsum crystals, unspecified on bottom of rock fragments and 5 percent carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments and 25 percent carbonate masses around rock fragments and 10 percent very coarse platy weakly coherent cemented silica masses throughout; 55 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-76 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 06N00980; observed in pit, small. fragment weights at sampling: Total weight = 38 lb 19-75 mm = 3 lb 75-250 mm = 0 lb
    Ck—99 to 152 centimeters (39.0 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; extremely gravelly loamy sand; massive; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.0 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments and 5 percent carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments and 3 percent threadlike gypsum crystals, unspecified along lamina or strata surfaces; 75 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-76 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8. Lab sample # 06N00981; observed in pit, small. fragment weights at sampling: Total weight = 54 lb 19-75 mm = 6 lb 75-250 mm = 0 lb