IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Purob
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2012NV003002
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NV003002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0523
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 73201
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025
  • 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: 36.5196667
  • Std. Longitude: -115.1633333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • County: NV003—Clark
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Douglas Merkler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic, shallow Calcic Petrocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Purob
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic, shallow Calcic Petrocalcids
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 45 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/19/2012
  • Classifier - Douglas Merkler
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landform: fan remnant, fan piedmont
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: very rare flooding for extremely brief periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/19/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Douglas Merkler
  • 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

    6

    5494

    202

    NevCAN Blackbrush

    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly very fine sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 10 percent clay; strong very thick platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 4.0 fine roots; 6.0 very fine and 2.0 fine and 1.0 coarse pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat 5-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N02783; observed in pit, small
    Bk—10 to 33 centimeters (3.9 to 13.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; gravelly fine sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 11 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 6.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 4.0 fine pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat 5-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N02784; observed in pit, small