IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Jerval
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2008NV027254
  • User Pedon ID: 2008NV027254
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 2008NV027254
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0495
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20056
  • 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: 40.5043611
  • Std. Longitude: -118.6906944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV027—Pershing
  • MLRA: 27—Fallon-Lovelock Area
  • Regional Office: 3obsolete—Reno, NV
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV761—Pershing County, Nevada, West Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40118-E6—Rocky Canyon, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ewb, jbf, sch, amb
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Durinodic Natrargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Jerval
  • PSC - 13 to 49 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Jerval
  • Classificaton Date - 5/6/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: fan piedmont
  • Landform: fan remnant
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R027XY013NV LOAMY 4-8 P.Z.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/6/2008 (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

    Atriplex confertifolia

    Picrothamnus desertorum

    shadscale saltbush

    bud sagebrush

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

    ochric epipedon

    natric horizon

    secondary carbonates

    durinodes

    gypsum accumulations

    0—13

    13—49

    13—151

    49—151

    127—151

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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

    4

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    1398

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    90

    150

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    120

    12

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    13.5

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; sandy loam; 11 percent clay; moderate thick platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.1 very fine roots; 6.0 very fine vesicular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly alkaline, pH 8.5; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A2—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; sandy loam; 12 percent clay; moderate thick platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 0.4 fine roots; 6.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 2-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly alkaline, pH 8.9; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Btkn1—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; gravelly clay loam; 29 percent clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky, and moderate fine and medium prismatic structure; very hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 0.4 fine roots; 2.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 55 percent prominent clay films on surfaces along pores and 55 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent black (10YR 2/1), dry, manganese masses; 15 percent noncoherent cemented carbonate masses; 15 percent by volume 2-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.9; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Btkn2—33 to 49 centimeters (13.0 to 19.3 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; gravelly clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots and 0.4 fine roots; 2.0 very fine interstitial pores; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 25 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores; 25 percent noncoherent cemented carbonate masses and 10 percent coarse weakly coherent cemented silica concretions and 20 percent coarse strongly coherent cemented carbonate concretions; 15 percent by volume 2-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bkq1—49 to 75 centimeters (19.3 to 29.5 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist; gravelly sandy loam; 12 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.4 very fine roots; 6.0 very fine interstitial pores; 20 percent noncoherent cemented carbonate masses and 20 percent weakly coherent cemented silica concretions and very coarse carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments; 20 percent by volume 2-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bkq2—75 to 90 centimeters (29.5 to 35.4 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; stratified stratified very gravelly loamy sand to gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.4 very fine roots; 6.0 very fine interstitial pores; 20 percent weakly coherent cemented silica concretions and fine carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments; 25 percent by volume 2-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bkq3—90 to 127 centimeters (35.4 to 50.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; stratified stratified very gravelly loamy sand to gravelly sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.4 very fine roots; 2.0 very fine interstitial pores; 20 percent weakly coherent cemented silica concretions and 1 percent noncoherent cemented gypsum masses around rock fragments and fine carbonate concretions on bottom of rock fragments; 25 percent by volume 2-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bkqy—127 to 151 centimeters (50.0 to 59.4 inches); variegated stratified stratified very gravelly loamy sand to gravelly sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.4 very fine roots; 2.0 very fine interstitial pores; 25 percent weakly coherent cemented silica concretions and 10 percent strongly coherent cemented silica concretions and 1 percent noncoherent cemented gypsum masses around rock fragments and fine carbonate masses on bottom of rock fragments and fine gypsum crystals, unspecified with sharp boundaries at top of horizon; 30 percent by volume 2-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    C—151 to 200 centimeters (59.4 to 78.7 inches); variegated stratified stratified very gravelly loamy coarse sand to gravelly sandy loam; single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine and fine interstitial pores; 30 percent by volume 2-36-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0.; observed in pit, small