IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vetagrande
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015NV005008
  • User Pedon ID: S2015NV005008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0748
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82513
  • User Project ID: 2015-MIN-SCS-001
  • Project Name: MLRA 26 - 0 - Soil Climate Study Lab Sampling- group 1
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 38.8393175
  • Std. Longitude: -119.5458509
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV005—Douglas
  • MLRA: 26—Carson Basin and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Chris Savastio
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vetagrande
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haploxerolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/13/2015
  • Classifier - Matt Cole
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from rhyolite
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent nonflat subangular indurated 2- to 75-millimeter rhyolite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/3/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: C. Savastio
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, shrubby
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

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    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

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    0—44

    44—102

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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

    43

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    2238

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    30

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    Mill Canyon North Slope

    Hobo Soil Temp
    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; gravelly loam; 50 percent sand; 8 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (8.0) very fine roots and few (1.0) fine roots; common (15.0) very fine irregular pores; 8 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-45-75 millimeter rhyolite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-4-5 millimeter rhyolite fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N03839; observed in pit, small
    A2—13 to 44 centimeters (5.1 to 17.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly loam; 50 percent sand; 9 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (3.0) very fine roots and few (1.0) fine roots; common (12.0) very fine irregular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-45-75 millimeter rhyolite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-4-5 millimeter rhyolite fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N03840; observed in pit, small
    Bw—44 to 102 centimeters (17.3 to 40.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 16 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common (2.0) very fine roots and few (1.0) fine roots and ; common (10.0) very fine irregular pores; 30 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter rhyolite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-45-75 millimeter rhyolite fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N03841; observed in pit, small
    C—102 to 150 centimeters (40.2 to 59.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; extremely cobbly sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 15 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; few (1.0) very fine roots; common (15.0) very fine irregular pores; 35 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter rhyolite fragments observed by visual inspection method and 40 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-45-75 millimeter rhyolite fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 15N03842; observed in pit, small