IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Softscrabble
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NV031005
  • User Pedon ID: 86NV031005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0907
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59201
  • 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: 40.9213905
  • Std. Longitude: -119.5811081
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35N
  • Range: 21E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet S and 1900 feet E of NW corner
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV031—Washoe
  • MLRA: 23—Malheur High Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ed Blake, Carl Hasty, Carole Jett, Bill Dollarhide
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Pachic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Softscrabble
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Softscrabble
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Pachic Argixeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 32.50 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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—81

    13—152

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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

    36

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    1906

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    0

    33

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    1A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; very stony loam; 18 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial and 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05445. many very fine and fine roots; common medium roots
    1A2—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; gravelly clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05446. common very fine and fine roots; common medium roots
    1Bt1—30 to 81 centimeters (11.8 to 31.9 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) interior and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; very gravelly clay loam, loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and 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; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05447. common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine and fine roots; common medium roots
    1Bt2—81 to 119 centimeters (31.9 to 46.9 inches); 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3) interior and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; very gravelly loam, very gravelly clay loam; 25 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots and 2.5 medium roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay films between sand grains and 37 percent distinct brown (10YR 5/3) clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter mixed fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.1, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05449. Clay loam textures are in darker areas.; common clay films surface features between sand grains; common clay films surface features on faces of peds and in pores; common very fine and fine roots; common medium roots
    2Bt3—119 to 152 centimeters (46.9 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, moist; gravelly clay loam; 27 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05450. few very fine and fine roots
    1Cr—152 centimeters (59.8 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Weathered andisitic tuff.