IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rugar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2014NV007024
  • User Pedon ID: S2014NV007024
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2014NV007024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0476
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 85238
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 41.8927700
  • Std. Longitude: -115.8579520
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV007—Elko
  • MLRA: 25—Owyhee High Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-ELK—Elko, Nevada
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV763—Northwest Elko County Area, Nevada, Part of Elko and Eureka Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Brien Park
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Pedon PC 6.1B
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rugar
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, frigid Typic Argixerolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 14 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/3/2014
  • Classifier - bkp
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from limestone and dolomite and/or granite and/or quartzite
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain valley
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainbase
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent subangular indurated 2- to 75-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/24/2014 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    A1

    Bt2

    Btg

    0

    14

    38

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    38

    70

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    A1

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    Btg

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    A1

    Bt2

    Btg

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    38

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    Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACHIL

    GERAN

    POA

    POTEN

    WYETH

    Achillea

    Geranium

    Poa

    Potentilla

    Wyethia

    yarrow

    geranium

    bluegrass

    cinquefoil

    mule-ears

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—38

    14—70

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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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    1207

    Merritt Mountain

    SNOTEL
    A1—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), black (10YR 2/1), moist; gravelly silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 28 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; deformable; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—14 to 38 centimeters (5.5 to 15.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), black (10YR 2/1), moist; gravelly silty clay loam; 10 percent sand; 42 percent clay; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, noncoherent, slightly sticky, very plastic; deformable; 10 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores; 8 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described;
    Btg—38 to 70 centimeters (15.0 to 27.6 inches); 2.5Y (2.5Y/),, dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), moist; gravelly clay; 10 percent sand; 48 percent clay; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; medium distinct spherical noncoherent cemented light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6), moist, iron depletions with diffuse boundaries in matrix; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments.