IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gravier
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2012NV033402
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NV033006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2012NV033402
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0356
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 71733
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 39.0356917
  • Std. Longitude: -114.0581861
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 4055—Izamatch-Katelana-Gravier 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, smectitic, 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 derived from welded tuff
  • Landscape: fan piedmont
  • Landform: lakebed
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: tuff, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R028BY074NV SODIC TERRACE 5-8 P.Z.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/6/2012 (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

    ATCA2

    SAVE4

    TETRA3

    Atriplex canescens

    Sarcobatus vermiculatus

    Tetradymia

    fourwing saltbush

    greasewood

    horsebrush

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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—6

    11—152

    36—92

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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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    1563

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    NevCAN Salt Desert East

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    A—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) broken face, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) broken face, moist; sandy loam; 12 percent clay; strong thick platy structure; noncoherent, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (5.0) very fine roots and few (2.0) medium roots and common (5.0) fine roots; many (8.0) very fine vesicular and many (8.0) fine vesicular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01030; observed in pit, small
    Bk—6 to 11 centimeters (2.4 to 4.3 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; sandy clay; 33 percent clay; strong thick platy structure; very hard, firm, noncoherent; common (5.0) very fine vesicular and common (5.0) fine vesicular pores; 3 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01031; observed in pit, small
    Btk1—11 to 36 centimeters (4.3 to 14.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; clay; 37 percent clay; strong fine angular blocky structure; very hard, friable, noncoherent; common (5.0) very fine roots and common (5.0) fine roots; common (5.0) very fine tubular and common (3.0) very fine interstitial and common (5.0) fine tubular and common (3.0) fine interstitial pores; 15 percent prominent clay films on surfaces along pores and 15 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01032; observed in pit, small
    Btk2—36 to 92 centimeters (14.2 to 36.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) broken face, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, moist; clay loam; 34 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, moderately sticky, very plastic; few (2.0) very fine roots; common (5.0) very fine interstitial and common (5.0) fine interstitial pores; 4 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 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; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01033; observed in pit, small
    Btk3—92 to 152 centimeters (36.2 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) broken face, pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, moderately sticky, very plastic; common (5.0) very fine interstitial and common (5.0) fine interstitial pores; 3 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 13N01041; observed in pit, small