IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Purob
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009NV003108
  • User Pedon ID: S2009NV003108
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0817
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24701
  • 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: 36.5168571
  • Std. Longitude: -115.1627731
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV003—Clark
  • MLRA: 30—Mojave Basin and Range
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV786—Energy and Defense Area, Nevada, Parts of Clark, Lincoln and Nye Counties
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Douglas J Merkler
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic, shallow Calcic Petrocalcids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 108
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Purob
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic, shallow Calcic Petrocalcids
  • Classificaton Date - 4/7/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 38 cm of Depth to hardpan


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from limestone and dolomite
  • Landscape: fan piedmont
  • Landform: fan remnant
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments: 5.00 percent nonflat 2- to 5-millimeter 60.00 percent nonflat 5- to 75-millimeter 5.00 percent nonflat 75- to 250-millimeter
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/7/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
  • 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

    6

    1667

    186

    257

    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very gravelly very fine sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 9 percent clay; strong very thick platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 4.0 fine roots; 6.0 very fine and 2.0 fine and 1.0 coarse pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat 5-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N02783
    Bk—9 to 24 centimeters (3.5 to 9.4 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; very gravelly sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 11 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 6.0 very fine roots and 2.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and 4.0 fine pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and 25 percent by volume nonflat 5-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N02784
    Bkq—24 to 39 centimeters (9.4 to 15.4 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist; extremely gravelly cemented; massive; moderately hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 1.0 fine roots; 1 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silica coats in root channels and/or pores; 8 percent prominent cylindrical very weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate masses in matrix and 30 percent medium distinct platy indurated cemented white (10YR 8/1) carbonate masses around rock fragments; 10 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 62 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N02785
    Bkqm—39 to 62 centimeters (15.4 to 24.4 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist; indurated; massive; very rigid, very rigid; brittle; 1 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silica coats in root channels and/or pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N02786
    2Bkq—62 to 138 centimeters (24.4 to 54.3 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), moist; extremely gravelly cemented; massive; moderately hard, firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent coarse prominent irregular strongly coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2); 10 percent by volume nonflat 75-163-250 millimeter unspecified fragments and 75 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 09N02788