IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Maryjane
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015NV003004
  • User Pedon ID: S2015NV003004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0835
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82545
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 36.2492500
  • Std. Longitude: -115.6283890
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Humboldt -Toiyabe Nat. Forest.
  • Map Unit: 916—Maryjane extremely gravelly loam, 8 to 30 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV003—Clark
  • MLRA: 30—Mojave Basin and Range
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SW-VIC—Victorville, California
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV755—Clark County Area, Nevada
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36115-B6—Griffith Peak, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Doug Merkler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic Pachic Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Spreadsheet
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Maryjane
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, frigid Pachic Calciustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/15/2015
  • Classifier - Doug Merkler
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • 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
  • Field Measured Properties: 12 percent of Control section clay and 60 percent of Control section CF


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from limestone
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: inset fan
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, center third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Pattern: parallel
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified at 104cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F030XC280NV Pinus ponderosa ssp. scopulorum/Ribes cereum/Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. spicata

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/15/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Doug Merkler
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • Current Air Temp - 38
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: wind erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    0—76

    24—104

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    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    8/15/2015

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    8
    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

    25

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    —

    2414

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    10

    640

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    —

    8.5

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    —

    9.4

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    —

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    1110

    Ranibow Canyon

    SNOTEL
    A—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; very gravelly silt loam; 15 percent sand; 67 percent silt; 18 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, loose, slightly sticky, nonplastic; common (4.0) very fine roots throughout; common (2.0) very fine tubular and common (2.0) fine tubular pores; 5 percent faint very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate coats on bottom of rock fragments; 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-4-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; g/cc of; percent of; um/s of; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH indicator strip; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N04195; moist when described; observed in cut
    AB—7 to 24 centimeters (2.8 to 9.4 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; extremely gravelly silt loam; 27 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (3.0) very fine roots throughout and common (1.0) medium roots throughout and common (1.0) fine roots throughout; common (2.0) very fine irregular pores; 10 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate coats on bottom of rock fragments; 25 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-4-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; g/cc of; percent of; um/s of; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH indicator strip; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N04196; moist when described; observed in cut
    Bk1—24 to 59 centimeters (9.4 to 23.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; extremely gravelly silt loam; 27 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 13 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many (6.0) very fine roots throughout and common (1.0) very coarse roots throughout and common (1.0) medium roots throughout and common (2.0) fine roots throughout; common (1.0) very fine irregular pores; 25 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate coats on bottom of rock fragments; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-163-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-4-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; g/cc of; percent of; um/s of; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, pH indicator strip; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N04197; moist when described; observed in cut
    Bk2—59 to 80 centimeters (23.2 to 31.5 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; extremely cobbly silt loam; 27 percent sand; 53 percent silt; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots throughout; common (1.0) very fine irregular pores; 25 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate coats on bottom of rock fragments; 20 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-163-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; g/cc of; percent of; um/s of; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator strip; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N04198; moist when described; observed in cut
    Bk3—80 to 104 centimeters (31.5 to 40.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; extremely gravelly loam; 35 percent sand; 50 percent silt; 15 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (4.0) very fine roots throughout and common (1.0) fine roots throughout; common (2.0) very fine irregular pores; 25 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate coats on bottom of rock fragments; 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-4-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; g/cc of; percent of; um/s of; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH indicator strip. Lab sample # 15N04199; moist when described; observed in cut