IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kunzler
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2012NV033901
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NV033007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2012NV033901
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0357
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 73085
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 38.9253083
  • Std. Longitude: -114.4080889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 5020—Atlanta-Kunzler 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: Brien Park
  • 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
  • Landscape: fan piedmont
  • Landform: fan skirt
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter 5.00 percent nonflat 250- to 600-millimeter 5.00 percent nonflat 600 5.00 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
    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

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

    Wyoming big sagebrush

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

    calcic horizon

    argillic horizon

    5—120

    33—120

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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

    5

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    1792

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    230

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    NevCAN Pinyon-Juniper West

    SCAN
    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; gravelly sandy loam; 18 percent clay; moderate thick platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots and few (1.0) fine roots; common (2.0) very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01034; observed in pit, small
    Bk1—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (2.0) fine roots; 5 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); white (10YR 8/1) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, moist; sandy clay loam; 25 percent clay; massive; hard, firm, weakly coherent, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; few (1.0) medium roots and common (2.0) fine roots; 10 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Btk—33 to 120 centimeters (13.0 to 47.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2) crushed, light gray (10YR 7/2) crushed, moist; sandy clay loam; 28 percent clay; massive; very hard, extremely firm, moderately coherent, moderately sticky, very plastic; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent carbonate, finely disseminated throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence.; observed in pit, small