IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Grandridge
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006NV005003
  • User Pedon ID: S2006NV005003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0047
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19090
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.8365288
  • Std. Longitude: -119.5050278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV005—Douglas
  • MLRA: 22A—Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi Mountains
  • Regional Office: 3obsolete—Reno, NV
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV773—Douglas County Area, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: jbf
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid, shallow Typic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Grandridge
  • Classificaton Date - 7/18/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Grandridge
  • Classificaton Date - 9/12/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: granitic residuum
  • Drainage Class: well
  • 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
    R022AY011NV MOUNTAIN RIDGE 30+ P.Z.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/12/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    15

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    2768

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    45

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    A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; 8 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak medium platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 6.0 very fine and fine roots; 0.4 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 5 percent by volume 5-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-4-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N00274
    Bt1—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; 16 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 6.0 very fine and fine roots; 2.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 5 percent by volume 5-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-4-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N00275
    Bt2—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very gravelly coarse sandy loam; 19 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 6.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.4 medium roots; 2.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains and 30 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 76-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 5-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-4-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N00276
    Bt3—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam; 18 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots around fragments; 0.4 fine tubular pores; 30 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 30 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 30 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 15 percent by volume 76-150-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 5-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-4-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 07N00277
    Cr—36 centimeters (14.2 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # 07N00278