IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): -
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2012NV033304
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NV033003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2012NV033304
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0353
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 73268
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 38.9060111
  • Std. Longitude: -114.3089028
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 5251—Bricone-Piar-Rock outcrop 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: NV709—Snake Range Area, Nevada, Part of White Pine County

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Matt Cole
  • 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: colluvium derived from limestone
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 60.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter 15.00 percent nonflat 75- to 250-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F028AY080NV ABCOC-PSMEG (White Fir-Douglas Fir)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/5/2012 (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

    ABCO

    PIAR

    PIEN

    PIFL2

    Abies concolor

    Pinus aristata

    Picea engelmannii

    Pinus flexilis

    white fir

    bristlecone pine

    Engelmann spruce

    limber pine

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—39

    5—19

    19—39

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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

    15

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    3356

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    175

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    NevCAN Subalpine West

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    0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; very gravelly loam; 20 percent clay; moderate thick platy structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many (10.0) very fine roots and many (10.0) medium roots and many (10.0) fine roots; many (10.0) very fine tubular and many (10.0) very fine interstitial and many (10.0) fine tubular and many (10.0) fine interstitial pores; 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01015; observed in pit, small
    5 to 19 centimeters (2.0 to 7.5 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; gravelly loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (5.0) very fine roots and common (5.0) medium roots and common (5.0) fine roots and common (2.0) coarse roots; common (5.0) very fine tubular and common (5.0) very fine interstitial and common (5.0) medium interstitial and common (5.0) medium tubular and common (5.0) fine interstitial and common (5.0) fine tubular pores; 3 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments; 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01016; observed in pit, small
    19 to 39 centimeters (7.5 to 15.4 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dry; extremely gravelly coarse sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 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; 5 percent silica concretions on bottom of rock fragments and 10 percent fine carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments; 30 percent by volume nonflat 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # 13N01017; observed in pit, small
    39 to 65 centimeters (15.4 to 25.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, dry; gravelly sandy loam; 6 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (3.0) very fine roots and common (3.0) medium roots and common (3.0) fine roots; common (3.0) medium interstitial and common (3.0) fine interstitial pores; 2 percent silica concretions on bottom of rock fragments and 15 percent fine carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 13N01018; observed in pit, small
    65 to 123 centimeters (25.6 to 48.4 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, dry; extremely channery sandy loam; 10 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 2 percent silica concretions on bottom of rock fragments and 15 percent fine carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments; 5 percent by volume nonflat 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume flat 2-?-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 13N01019; observed in pit, small