IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Buffaran
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1972NV001008
  • User Pedon ID: 1972NV001008
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1972NV001008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 72C0018
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43952
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 39.3277778
  • Std. Longitude: -117.8000000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 37E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: north 1/2 of section
  • Location Description: Churchill County, Nevada; about 4.5 miles east-northeast of Eastgate
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV001—Churchill
  • MLRA: 27—Fallon-Lovelock Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV770—Churchill County Area, Nevada, Parts of Churchill and Lyon Counties

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. B. Alexander, E. L. Spencer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Argidurids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Buffaran
  • PSC - 9 to 52 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Xerollic Duragid
  • Classificaton Date - 4/27/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/27/1972 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 14062
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    EPHED

    Ephedra

    jointfir

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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

    7

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    1939

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    225

    254

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    8

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    A11—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 fine vesicular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 72C00105
    A12—2 to 9 centimeters (0.8 to 3.5 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; weak very thin platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 72C00106
    B1t—9 to 24 centimeters (3.5 to 9.4 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 72C00107
    B21t—24 to 35 centimeters (9.4 to 13.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and weak fine prismatic structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium and coarse roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 72C00108
    B22t—35 to 52 centimeters (13.8 to 20.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; clay; strong medium prismatic structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine tubular pores; very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 72C00109
    Csim—52 to 72 centimeters (20.5 to 28.3 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/4), brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), moist; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 72C00110