IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clanalpine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1980NV001017
  • User Pedon ID: 1980NV001017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0407
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49251
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 39.4319444
  • Std. Longitude: -117.7327778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 38E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet S and 1250 feet E of NW corner
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV001—Churchill

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. B. F.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Typic Argixerolls
  • 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 #: 17
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Clanalpine
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clanalpine
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountains or deeply dissected plateaus
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, tundra
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    20—41

    20—61

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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

    60

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    2349

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    45

    38

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    1A 11—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; very stony loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; 3 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P02240. common very fine roots
    1O—3 to 0 centimeters (1.2 to 0.0 inches); undecomposed organic matter; fragments. Not sampled. Pinyon pine litter and needle duff.
    1A 12—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; very stony loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 3 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P02240. common very fine roots; common medium roots
    1B 21t—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; very cobbly loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 medium tubular pores; 37 percent skeletans over cutans on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Not sampled.; common skeletans over cutans surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots; common medium roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 368796; patchy - phpvsfiid 368796
    1B 22t—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; extremely cobbly loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular and 2.5 medium tubular pores; 37 percent skeletans over cutans on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Not sampled.; common skeletans over cutans surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots; common medium roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 368797; continuous - phpvsfiid 368797
    1B 23t—51 to 99 centimeters (20.1 to 39.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; very cobbly loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Not sampled.; few medium roots
    1C r—99 to 114 centimeters (39.0 to 44.9 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Not sampled. Weathered and highly fractured bedrock with clay loam and rocks in pockets.