IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hough
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1977NV019003
  • User Pedon ID: 1977NV019003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45026
  • 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: 39.3450000
  • Std. Longitude: -119.1861111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 25E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 518 meters E and 91 meters S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Lyon County, NV.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV019—Lyon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. A. Mitchell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hough
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hough
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: terrace—stream or lake
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    1A 11—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; sand; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00120. many very fine and fine roots
    1A 12—4 to 13 centimeters (1.6 to 5.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, moist; sand; weak coarse platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 medium tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00121. many very fine roots
    1AB—13 to 24 centimeters (5.1 to 9.4 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; loamy sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and 0.5 medium tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P00122. common to many fine roots
    1B 2t—24 to 45 centimeters (9.4 to 17.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 37 percent clay films on faces of peds and 37 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores and 55 percent clay films between sand grains; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P00123. many clay films surface features between sand grains; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; few medium roots; common very fine and fine roots
    1B 3t—45 to 66 centimeters (17.7 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; gravelly loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 37 percent clay films between sand grains and 37 percent clay films and 37 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P00124. common clay films surface features between sand grains; common clay films surface features; common clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; many very fine and fine roots
    2C 1—66 to 92 centimeters (26.0 to 36.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, moist; gravelly sand; massive; very hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P00125. few fine roots; common very fine roots
    2C 2—92 to 118 centimeters (36.2 to 46.5 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; very gravelly sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 fine and medium interstitial pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P00126. few very fine roots
    2C 3—118 to 152 centimeters (46.5 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; sand; massive; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 5.5 fine interstitial pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 78P00127. few very fine roots