IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ragtown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1959NV001004
  • User Pedon ID: 1959NV001004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3246
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38375
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 39.4728611
  • Std. Longitude: -118.7575833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19N
  • Range: 29E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: The site is located approximately 1,475 feet E and 730 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Ken Kent Ranch, approximately 0.25 mile due east of Fallon, Nevada on the Stillwater road. See aerial photograph DOP 2T-132 for exact location.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV001—Churchill
  • MLRA: 27—Fallon-Lovelock Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV603—Fallon-Fernley Area, Nevada, Parts of Churchill, Lyon, Storey and Washoe Counties
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39118-D7—Fallon, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. N. Langan and M. A. Townsend
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, calcareous, mesic Typic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ragtown (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Unnamed
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: lacustrine deposits
  • Landform: basin floor
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1959 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: DOP2T-132
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    secondary carbonates

    0—18

    58—107

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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

    —

    —

    —

    1200

    —

    127

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    —

    —

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    10.6

    22.8

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many (5.0) very fine and fine roots and common (4.0) medium roots; many (3.0) very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary.
    AC—25 to 58 centimeters (9.8 to 22.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many (5.0) very fine and fine roots and common (4.0) medium roots; many (3.0) very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6; clear smooth boundary.
    2Ck—58 to 107 centimeters (22.8 to 42.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak thin platy structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common (4.0) very fine and fine roots; few (1.0) fine tubular pores; 15 percent medium distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 15 percent fine noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6; clear smooth boundary.
    2C1—107 to 140 centimeters (42.1 to 55.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; silty clay; weak thin platy structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; few (2.0) fine roots; few (1.0) fine tubular pores; 15 percent medium prominent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8; abrupt smooth boundary.
    2C2—140 to 163 centimeters (55.1 to 64.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; stratified stratified fine sand to silty clay; massive; hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; few (2.0) fine roots; few (1.0) fine tubular pores; 35 percent coarse prominent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8.