IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kunzler
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2012NV033401
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NV033002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2012NV033401
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0352
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72790
  • 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: 39.0431694
  • Std. Longitude: -114.4830389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 5070—Kunzler-Toopits-Atlanta association
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV033—White Pine
  • MLRA: 28A—Ancient Lake Bonneville
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-ELK—Elko, Nevada
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV779—White Pine County, Nevada, East Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Matt Cole
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Xeric Calciargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 5.0
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: fan piedmont, fan skirt
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • 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
    R028AY008NV SODIC TERRACE 8-10 P. Z.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/4/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ARTRW8

    ATCA2

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

    Atriplex canescens

    Wyoming big sagebrush

    fourwing saltbush

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—8

    17—152

    17—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

    3

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    50

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    NevCAN Sagbrush West

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 15 percent clay; strong thick platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots; common (2.0) very fine interstitial and many (10.0) medium vesicular and many (10.0) medium interstitial and many (10.0) fine interstitial and common (2.0) fine vesicular pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 13N01010; observed in pit, small
    Bk—8 to 17 centimeters (3.1 to 6.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, moist; loam; 16 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many (10.0) very fine roots and common (3.0) medium roots and many (10.0) fine roots and few (1.0) coarse roots; many (10.0) very fine tubular and many (10.0) very fine interstitial and many (10.0) medium tubular and many (10.0) medium interstitial and many (10.0) fine interstitial and many (10.0) fine tubular pores; 1 percent strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 13N01011; observed in pit, small
    Btk1—17 to 47 centimeters (6.7 to 18.5 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, moist; loam; 16 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; common (3.0) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots; common (5.0) very fine tubular and common (5.0) very fine interstitial and common (5.0) fine tubular and common (5.0) fine interstitial pores; 5 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules throughout and 5 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 13N01012; observed in pit, small
    Btk2—47 to 87 centimeters (18.5 to 34.3 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face, moist; clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; common (3.0) very fine roots and common (3.0) fine roots; common (3.0) very fine interstitial and common (3.0) fine interstitial pores; 10 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 13N01013; observed in pit, small
    Btk3—87 to 152 centimeters (34.3 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, moist; clay loam; 38 percent clay; massive; hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; common (3.0) very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 13N01014; observed in pit, small