IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Slaw
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NV017004
  • User Pedon ID: 86NV017004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986NV017004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0889
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59183
  • 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: 37.3549995
  • Std. Longitude: -114.9361115
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7S
  • Range: 63E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 2520 feet S and 1100 feet E of the projected NE corner
  • Location Description: Lincoln, County, NV. Delamar Valley.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV017—Lincoln
  • MLRA: 29—Southern Nevada Basin and Range

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Typic Torrifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Slaw
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Delflat
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed (calcareous), mesic Typic Torr
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: playa or alluvial flat
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ATCA2

    ATCO

    Atriplex canescens

    Atriplex confertifolia

    fourwing saltbush

    shadscale saltbush

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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

    0

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    180

    15

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    1A—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 21 percent sand; 65 percent silt; strong very coarse platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05349
    1C1—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); yellow (10YR 7/6) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 21 percent sand; 65 percent silt; strong fine and medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05350. At base of horizon boundry thin to 3 cm thick discontinuous coarse platy buried A horizon with few medium coarse vescular pores.
    1C2—15 to 48 centimeters (5.9 to 18.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 19 percent sand; 65 percent silt; strong fine and medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05351. common very fine and fine roots; few medium roots
    1C3—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 14 percent sand; 70 percent silt; moderate coarse prismatic, and weak medium platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05352. few very fine and fine roots
    1C4—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, moist; silt loam; 18 percent sand; 70 percent silt; strong fine and medium platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 5.5 very fine and fine interstitial and 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05353. few fine and medium roots
    1Ab—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, moist; silt loam; 21 percent sand; 65 percent silt; strong fine and medium platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine tubular and 5.5 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P05354