IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rad
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1966NV013001
  • User Pedon ID: S1966NV013001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1966NV013001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3180
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38309
  • 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: 40.9815559
  • Std. Longitude: -117.6981888
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 36N
  • Range: 38E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet west of the E 1/4 corner
  • Location Description: The site is about 1.5 miles east of Winnemucca and 300 feet north of US Highway 40.
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV013—Humboldt
  • MLRA: 24—Humboldt Basin and Range Area
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV777—Humboldt County, Nevada, East Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. N. Langan and L. Larsen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Duric Camborthids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Rad
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rad
  • Classificaton Date - 5/10/1966
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/10/1966 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ARTR2

    BRTE

    CHRYS9

    CHRYS9

    GRSP

    PASM

    Achnatherum hymenoides

    Artemisia tridentata

    Bromus tectorum

    Chrysothamnus

    Chrysothamnus

    Grayia spinosa

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Indian ricegrass

    big sagebrush

    cheatgrass

    rabbitbrush

    rabbitbrush

    spiny hopsage

    western wheatgrass

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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

    8

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    1359

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    254

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    10

    18.9

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; fine sandy loam; weak thin platy structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24855
    B2—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak thick platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24856
    C1si—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24857
    C2si—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, thymol-blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A24858
    IIC3sica—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, weakly coherent by silica, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine pores; very pale brown (10YR 7/3) and white (10YR 8/1) and 30 percent clay films between sand grains; fragments; violent effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A24859. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 188366; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 188366
    IIC4si—107 to 145 centimeters (42.1 to 57.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine and 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.6, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 40A24860