IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Risley
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975NV031015
  • User Pedon ID: S1975NV031015
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1975NV031015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A3429
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38544
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 39.5965576
  • Std. Longitude: -119.7960052
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20N
  • Range: 19E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet west and 1500 feet north from southeast corner
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV031—Washoe
  • MLRA: 26—Carson Basin and Mountains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV628—Washoe County, Nevada, South Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39119-E7—Reno, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W.E. Dollarhide and O. W. Baumer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Xerollic Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Risley
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Risley
  • Classificaton Date - 10/9/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/9/1975 (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

    ARAR8

    ARTR2

    BRTE

    CHRYS9

    EPVI

    Artemisia arbuscula

    Artemisia tridentata

    Bromus tectorum

    Chrysothamnus

    Ephedra viridis

    little sagebrush

    big sagebrush

    cheatgrass

    rabbitbrush

    mormon tea

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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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    1565

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    135

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; very stony loam; massive; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and vesicular pores; 3 percent by volume 250-?-? millimeter unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, bromthymol blue; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26568
    B2t—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; sandy clay loam; strong medium and coarse prismatic structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 3.0 medium roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 21 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26569
    B31t—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; sandy clay loam; massive; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 75 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A26570
    B32tca—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; loam; massive; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 10 percent clay films between sand grains; 5 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A26571
    Cr—61 to 102 centimeters (24.0 to 40.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A26572