IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Duco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015NV005009
  • User Pedon ID: S2015NV005009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0749
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82514
  • User Project ID: 2015-MIN-SCS-001
  • Project Name: MLRA 26 - 0 - Soil Temperature Study Lab Sampling- group 1
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 38.8408363
  • Std. Longitude: -119.5440950
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV005—Douglas
  • MLRA: 26—Carson Basin and Mountains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Matt Cole
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Xeric Haplargids
  • 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 - Duco
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Xeric Haplargids
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 5 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/13/2015
  • Classifier - M. 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: residuum weathered from volcanic rock
  • Landscape: mountains
  • Landform: mountain slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank, center third
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: indurated rhyolite at 28cm
  • Surface Fragments: nonflat subangular indurated 2- to 75-millimeter volcanic, unspecified, nonflat subangular indurated 250- to 600-millimeter volcanic, unspecified, nonflat subangular indurated 600 volcanic, unspecified, nonflat subangular indurated 75- to 250-millimeter volcanic, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/3/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: M. Cole
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    28 -

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

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    5—28

    28—

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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

    35

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    2235

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    260

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    Mill Canyon South-Open

    Hobo Soil Temp
    V—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 11 percent clay; very thick platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 3.0 fine roots; common (10.0) very fine vesicular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-4-5 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-45-75 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N03843; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; common (5.0) very fine irregular and common (5.0) fine irregular pores; 5 percent distinct clay films on bottom of rock fragments; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-45-75 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 15 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-4-5 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N03844; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very cobbly sandy clay loam; 60 percent sand; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 very coarse roots and 1.0 medium roots and 3.0 coarse roots; common (7.0) medium irregular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 75-162-250 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 250-450-600 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 2-4-5 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method and 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular indurated 5-45-75 millimeter volcanic, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N03845; observed in pit, small
    R—28 centimeters (11.0 inches); fragments.; observed in pit, small