IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Singatse
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008NV021192
  • User Pedon ID: 2008NV021192
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2008NV021192
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0491
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20052
  • 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: 39.0471944
  • Std. Longitude: -118.6216667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 30E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: about 2,520 feet north and 1,090 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: on the Walker River Indian Reservation
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV021—Mineral
  • MLRA: 27—Fallon-Lovelock Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV774—Mineral County Area, Nevada
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39118-A5—Red Ridge, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: jbf, sch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Lithic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Singatse (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 0 to 15 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Singatse
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium and/or residuum weathered from andesite
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Bedrock: andesite at 15cm with 45 to <100
  • Surface Fragments: 65.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter andesite,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R027XY027NV BARREN GRAVELLY SLOPE 4-8 P.Z.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/8/2008 (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

    ATCO

    PIDE4

    SAVE4

    TEGL

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Picrothamnus desertorum

    Sarcobatus vermiculatus

    Tetradymia glabrata

    shadscale saltbush

    bud sagebrush

    greasewood

    littleleaf horsebrush

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    18 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—15

    15—

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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

    25

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    1420

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    10

    150

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    120

    11.5

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    13

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    A—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 11 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common (2.0) very fine and fine vesicular and common (2.0) very fine and fine tubular pores; 45 percent by volume nonflat 2-36-75 millimeter andesite fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; abrupt wavy boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    C—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 13 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many (5.0) very fine roots and common (4.0) fine roots; many (3.0) very fine interstitial and few (1.0) fine interstitial pores; 55 percent by volume nonflat 2-36-75 millimeter andesite fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    R—15 centimeters (5.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small