IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Purob
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015NV003003
  • User Pedon ID: S2015NV003003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0834
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82544
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 36.2691720
  • Std. Longitude: -115.5199840
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Humboldt -Toiyabe Nat. Forest.
  • Map Unit: 731—Purob-Irongold association
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV003—Clark
  • MLRA: 30—Mojave Basin and Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV755—Clark County Area, Nevada
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36115-C5—Angel Peak, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Doug Merkler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic, shallow Calcic Petrocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Purob
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic, shallow Calcic Petrocalcids
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/13/2015
  • Classifier - Doug Merkler
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Other Feature Description - burned
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Other Feature Description - burned
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: level 1


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from limestone and dolomite
  • Landscape: fan piedmont
  • Landform: fan remnant
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 35.00 percent 2- to 5-millimeter limestone, unspecified, 1.00 percent 75- to 250-millimeter limestone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R030XC007NV SHALLOW GRAVELLY LOAM 7-9 P.Z.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/12/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    cemented horizon

    petrocalcic

    strongly coherent

    strongly coherent

    31 - 80

    31 - 80

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

    calcic horizon

    petrocalcic horizon

    12—31

    31—80

    —19—

    —49—
    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

    2

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    1710

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    70

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    12

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    A—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) rubbed, moist; very gravelly loam; 15 percent clay; moderate very coarse platy structure; slightly hard, friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few (1.0) very fine roots; many (7.0) very fine vesicular pores; 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 5-43-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N04190
    Bk1—7 to 12 centimeters (2.8 to 4.7 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) rubbed, moist; gravelly loam; 12 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, nonplastic; many (5.0) very fine roots and common (4.0) fine roots; common (2.0) fine tubular pores; 10 percent prominent very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate coats on bottom of rock fragments; 1 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-4-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 5-43-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N04191
    Bk2—12 to 22 centimeters (4.7 to 8.7 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) rubbed, moist; gravelly loam; 12 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots and common (3.0) medium roots and common (2.0) fine roots; common (1.0) medium tubular and common (1.0) fine tubular and many (5.0) fine irregular pores; 10 percent prominent very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate coats on rock fragments; 4 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; 1 percent by volume , 40 percent by weight nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-163-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume , 40 percent by weight nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-43-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N04192
    Bk3—22 to 31 centimeters (8.7 to 12.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) rubbed, moist; very gravelly loam; 15 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, noncoherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots and common (2.0) fine roots; common (1.0) medium tubular and common (1.0) fine tubular pores; 10 percent prominent very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate coats on rock fragments; 4 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with sharp boundaries in matrix; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 75-163-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular very strongly coherent cemented 2-43-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N04193
    Bkkm—31 to 80 centimeters (12.2 to 31.5 inches); cemented material; massive; strongly coherent; fragments. Lab sample # 15N04194