IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Grifleys
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2012NV033403
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NV033008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2012NV033403
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N0358
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72864
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 39.0208028
  • Std. Longitude: -114.1773750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Map Unit: 1800—Eastmore-Armespan-Jericho association
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV033—White Pine
  • MLRA: 28A—Ancient Lake Bonneville
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV779—White Pine County, Nevada, East Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Matt Cole
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Calcixerolls
  • 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 quartzite
  • Landscape: fan piedmont
  • Landform: fan apron
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: quartzite
  • Surface Fragments: 15.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter 5.00 percent nonflat 250- to 600-millimeter 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
    R028AY013NV SHALLOW CALCAREOUS LOAM 8-10 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

    ARTRW8

    BRTE

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

    Bromus tectorum

    Wyoming big sagebrush

    cheatgrass

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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—27

    7—27

    27—101

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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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    1842

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    NevCAN Sagebrush East

    SCAN
    A—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; gravelly sandy loam; 10 percent clay; moderate thick platy structure; soft, very friable, noncoherent; many (10.0) very fine roots and common (5.0) medium roots and many (10.0) fine roots; common (3.0) very fine vesicular and common (3.0) very fine interstitial and common (3.0) fine vesicular and common (3.0) fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 13N01037
    Bt—7 to 27 centimeters (2.8 to 10.6 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, dark brown (10YR 3/3) broken face, moist; very cobbly sandy loam; 15 percent clay; weak 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; common (5.0) very fine interstitial and common (5.0) medium interstitial and few (1.0) fine tubular and common (5.0) fine interstitial pores; 3 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bk—27 to 101 centimeters (10.6 to 39.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; extremely cobbly sandy loam; 18 percent clay; massive; hard, friable, very weakly coherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (3.0) medium roots and common (3.0) coarse roots; common (5.0) very fine interstitial and common (5.0) medium interstitial and common (5.0) fine interstitial pores; 20 percent carbonate concretions around rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence.