IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pickup
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1984NV027005
  • User Pedon ID: 1984NV027005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0624
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54868
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 40.2602778
  • Std. Longitude: -118.6636111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N
  • Range: 29E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 1900 feet West, 200 feet North of the Southeast corner
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV027—Pershing
  • MLRA: 27—Fallon-Lovelock Area

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jossie
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, smectitic, mesic Aridic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pickup
  • PSC - 15 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nortain
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1984 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—31

    15—53

    53—0

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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

    31

    —

    —

    1640

    —

    315

    250

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    —

    9

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    10

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    1A 1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very stony loam; moderate fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 5.5 very fine vesicular and 5.5 fine vesicular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P3493. common very fine roots
    1A 2—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P3494. common very fine roots; few fine roots
    1B t—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very gravelly clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 fine interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; 1 percent by volume 600-?-? millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P3495. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; common very fine roots; few fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 370420; patchy - phpvsfiid 370421; patchy - phpvsfiid 370420; patchy - phpvsfiid 370421
    1B tk1—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 very fine interstitial and tubular and 0.5 medium interstitial and tubular pores; 15 percent clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; 1 percent by volume 600-?-? millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 2 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P3496. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; few very fine roots; few medium roots; effervescence is discontinuous; patchy - phpvsfiid 370422; patchy - phpvsfiid 370423; patchy - phpvsfiid 370422; patchy - phpvsfiid 370423
    1B tk2—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; extremely gravelly clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine void between rock fragments pores; pressure faces and 15 percent clay films on faces of peds and 15 percent clay films in root channels and/or pores; 2 percent by volume 600-?-? millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 65 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P3497. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; few clay films surface features in root channels and/or pores; few very fine roots; effervescence is discontinuous; patchy - phpvsfiid 370424; patchy - phpvsfiid 370425; patchy - phpvsfiid 370424; patchy - phpvsfiid 370425
    1R—53 to 56 centimeters (20.9 to 22.0 inches); unknown texture; fragments. Not sampled.