IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Slaw
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1972NV001011
  • User Pedon ID: 1972NV001011
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1972NV001011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 72C0023
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43957
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 39.6722222
  • Std. Longitude: -118.1222222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21N
  • Range: 34E
  • Section: 23
  • Location Description: Churchill County, Nevada; about 1 mile west-southwest of the Dixie Valley School
  • 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-silty over clayey, mixed over smectitic, superactive, calcareous, mesic Typic Torrifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Slaw
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Typic Torrifluve
  • Classificaton Date - 4/28/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: mixed alluvium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/28/1972 (actual site observation date)
  • 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

    ATLE

    SAVE4

    Atriplex lentiformis

    Sarcobatus vermiculatus

    big saltbush

    greasewood

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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

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    1048

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    A1—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and strong thin platy structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 72C00136
    C1—12 to 22 centimeters (4.7 to 8.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; moderate medium platy, and moderate thick platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 72C00137
    C2—22 to 38 centimeters (8.7 to 15.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; moderate thick platy, and moderate medium platy, and weak coarse prismatic structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent thin clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 72C00138
    C3—38 to 67 centimeters (15.0 to 26.4 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 72C00139
    2C4—67 to 75 centimeters (26.4 to 29.5 inches); white (10YR 8/1), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 72C00140
    3C5—75 to 105 centimeters (29.5 to 41.3 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; sandy clay loam; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 72C00141