IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Badena
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994NV033006
  • User Pedon ID: 94NV033006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1994NV033006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0731
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66904
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024
  • 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: 39.2838287
  • Std. Longitude: -114.4980774
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 66E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet south and 2300 feet west of northeast corner
  • Location Description: Approximately 3700 feet west along Stephens Creek from Spring Valley.
  • Map Unit: 3344—Badena association
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV033—White Pine
  • MLRA: 28A—Ancient Lake Bonneville
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV779—White Pine County, Nevada, East Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39114-C4—Yelland Dry Lake, Nevada
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gary Medlyn
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Badena
  • PSC - 20 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Badena
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Aridic Argixeroll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/1994
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landform: fan remnant
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/21/1994 (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
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ACHY

    AGSP

    ARTRV

    ARTRW

    ARTRW8

    ARVA2

    ORHY

    POA

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Agropyron spicatum

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana

    Artemisia tridentata var. wyomingensis

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

    Artemisia vaseyana

    Oryzopsis hymenoides

    Poa

    Indian ricegrass

    mountain big sagebrush

    Wyoming big sagebrush

    bluegrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—20

    20—60

    60—153

    —-

    —-

    —-

    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

    20

    1853

    90

    280

    8

    7

    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; extremely cobbly loam; 44 percent sand; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 6.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.9 medium roots throughout; 3.0 fine moderate-continuity continuous tubular and 6.0 fine moderate-continuity interstitial pores; 35 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; 5 percent of percent, by wei; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P05514; dry when described;
    Bt1—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; extremely cobbly loam; 45 percent sand; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 6.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.9 medium roots throughout; 6.0 fine moderate-continuity continuous tubular pores; 30 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; 5 percent of percent, by wei; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P05515; dry when described;
    Bt2—30 to 60 centimeters (11.8 to 23.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; extremely cobbly loam; 45 percent sand; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 6.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.9 medium roots throughout; 6.0 fine moderate-continuity continuous tubular pores; 35 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; 5 percent of percent, by wei; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P05516; dry when described;
    Bk1—60 to 90 centimeters (23.6 to 35.4 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; extremely cobbly sandy loam; 55 percent sand; 15 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 6.0 fine moderate-continuity continuous tubular pores; distinct carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 30 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; 5 percent of percent, by wei; noneffervescent; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P05517; dry when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180724; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180724
    Bk2—90 to 153 centimeters (35.4 to 60.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; extremely cobbly loam; 45 percent sand; 20 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 0.9 very fine and fine roots throughout; 6.0 fine moderate-continuity continuous tubular pores; distinct carbonate coats on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 5 percent fine irregular carbonate masses throughout; 35 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter quartzite fragments; 5 percent of percent, by wei; very slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8. Lab sample # 94P05518; dry when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180725; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180725