IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pickup
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NV031008
  • User Pedon ID: 86NV031008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0910
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59204
  • 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: 40.8605537
  • Std. Longitude: -119.5777740
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 34N
  • Range: 21E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 2200 feet S and 2400 feet W of NE corner
  • Location Description: Along S end of Square Valley Canyon.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV031—Washoe
  • MLRA: 23—Malheur High Plateau

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ed Blake and Carl Hasty
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, mesic Aridic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pickup
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pickup
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, montmorillonitic, mesic Aridic Ar
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • 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—28

    15—74

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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

    45

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    1574

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    90

    28

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    1A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; very stony loam; 17 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine interstitial pores; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05459. many very fine roots
    1A2—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; gravelly clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05460. common fine roots; many very fine roots
    1Bt1—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; gravelly clay loam; 39 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05461. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; common very fine and fine roots
    1Bt2—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; very gravelly clay; 52 percent clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05462. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine and fine roots
    1Bt3—48 to 74 centimeters (18.9 to 29.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; very gravelly clay; 52 percent clay; weak medium and coarse prismatic, and strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, very friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 37 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 86P05463. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots
    1R—74 centimeters (29.1 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Hard cracked basalt bedrock.