IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Old Camp
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001NV771002
  • User Pedon ID: S2001NV031001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2001NV771002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0101
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15954
  • 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: 40.2704353
  • Std. Longitude: -119.9276886
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N.
  • Range: 18E.
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: about 437 meters west and 430 meters south of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Site is located east of the Pipe Spring jeep road in an old burn area dating back 15 to 30 years ago.
  • Map Unit: 250—Old Camp-Reywat-Jaybee association
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV031—Washoe
  • MLRA: 23—Malheur High Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV771—Washoe County, Nevada, Central Part
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40119-C8—Parker Canyon, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joseph V. Chiaretti
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Xeric Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Old Camp
  • PSC - 8 to 46 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/26/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Old Camp
  • Classificaton Date - 8/8/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from basalt and/or loess
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hill
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent slight weathered basalt at 46cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 20.00 percent nonflat subangular 2- to 75-millimeter basalt, 10.00 percent nonflat subangular 250- to 600-millimeter basalt, 40.00 percent nonflat subangular 75- to 250-millimeter basalt,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/8/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: STONY SLOPE 8-10 P.Z. (026XY022NV)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ELEL5

    ACTH7

    CHRYS9

    ARTRW8

    Elymus elymoides

    Achnatherum thurberianum

    Chrysothamnus

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

    squirreltail

    Thurber's needlegrass

    rabbitbrush

    Wyoming big sagebrush

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    very strongly coherent

    46 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    lithic contact

    0—18

    18—46

    20—46

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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

    34

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    1479.2

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    180

    229

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    100

    9.4

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    10.4

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    A1—0 to 2 centimeters (0.0 to 0.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very cobbly loam; 12 percent clay; weak thick platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; low excavation difficulty; 4.0 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N00251; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—2 to 8 centimeters (0.8 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very cobbly loam; 18 percent clay; moderate medium platy parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; low excavation difficulty; 4.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N00252; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very cobbly loam; 24 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 4.0 very fine roots and 4.0 fine roots; 4.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N00253; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Btk—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very cobbly loam; 25 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 4.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots; 4.0 very fine tubular pores; 3 percent prominent carbonate coats on rock fragments and 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; 10 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 3n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 02N00254; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    R—46 centimeters (18.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.; dry when described; observed in pit, small