IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ceejay
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NV031002
  • User Pedon ID: 86NV031002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0904
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59198
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 40.6433334
  • Std. Longitude: -119.6883316
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 20E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 250 feet S and 300 feet E of NW corner
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV031—Washoe
  • MLRA: 23—Malheur High Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ed Blake, Carl Hasty and Steve Walker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, mesic Lithic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ceejay
  • PSC - 8 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ceejay
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Lithic Xerollic Hapl
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 9.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1986 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    8—41

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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

    10

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    1388

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    180

    20

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dry; stony loam; 15 percent clay; moderate fine platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 0.5 very fine vesicular and 2.5 fine interstitial pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05429. few very fine and fine roots
    1Bt1—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; gravelly clay loam; 38 percent clay; weak fine prismatic, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05430. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine roots; few fine and medium roots
    1Bt2—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; gravelly clay; 42 percent clay; moderate fine platy, and moderate fine angular blocky structure; hard, friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05431. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine roots; common medium roots
    1Bt3—33 to 41 centimeters (13.0 to 16.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, dry; gravelly clay loam; 36 percent clay; weak fine prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, very sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05432. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots