LOCATION KANESPRINGS NV
Established Series
Rev. RWW/DJM/RLB
09/2015
KANESPRINGS SERIES
The Kanesprings series consists of shallow over duripan, well drained soils that formed in residuum and colluvium from basalt, ignimbrite, and volcanic tuffs of intermediate composition. The Kanesprings soils are on summits of plateaus and side slopes of low mountains and hills. Slopes are 8 to 50 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 6 inches and the mean annual air temperature is about 57 degrees F.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy, mixed, superactive, thermic, shallow Typic Argidurids
TYPICAL PEDON: Kanesprings very cobbly sandy loam, rangeland. (Colors are for dry soil unless otherwise noted.) The soil surface is partially covered with 15 percent pebbles and 25 percent cobbles.
A--0 to 3 inches; pale brown (10YR 6/3) very cobbly sandy loam, brown (10YR 4/3) moist; moderate fine platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky and plastic; common fine roots; many very fine and fine interstitial pores; 15 percent pebbles and 25 percent cobbles; slightly effervescent; moderately alkaline (pH 8.2); clear smooth boundary. (2 to 4 inches thick).
Btk1--3 to 8 inches; light brown (7.5YR 6/4) gravelly loam, brown (7.5YR 5/4) moist; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, sticky and plastic; common very fine and few medium roots; common very fine tubular pores; few very thin clay films lining pores; few very thin lime and silica coats on undersides of rock fragments; 20 percent pebbles and 2 percent cobbles; strongly effervescent; moderately alkaline (pH 8.2); clear smooth boundary. (4 to 6 inches thick).
Btk2--8 to 18 inches; brown (7.5YR 5/4) gravelly clay loam, dark brown (7.5YR 4/4) moist; strong medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, sticky and plastic; common very fine and fine and few medium roots; common very fine and fine tubular pores; common very thin clay films on faces of peds and lining pores; many thin lime and silica coats and pendants on vertical and undersides of rock fragments; 25 percent pebbles and 5 percent cobbles; violently effervescent; moderately alkaline (pH 8.4); abrupt smooth boundary. (7 to 12 inches thick).
Bqkm--18 to 27 inches; indurated duripan.
R--27 inches; hard basalt.
TYPE LOCATION: Lincoln County, Nevada in the Kane Springs Wash area approximately 4 miles southeast of Kanesprings and 900 feet north and 1,675 feet west of the projected southeast corner of section 1, T. 9 S., and R. 64 E., 37 degrees, 11 minutes and 27 seconds north latitude and 114 degrees, 45 minutes and 42 seconds west longitude.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Soil moisture - Usually dry, moist for short periods during the winter and spring dry from summer to mid fall.
Soil temperature - 60 to 65 degrees F.
Depth to duripan - 14 to 20 inches.
Depth to bedrock - 18 to 30 inches.
Reaction - Moderately alkaline or strongly alkaline.
Control section - Clay content: Averages 18 to 35 percent.
Rock fragments: Averages 24 to 35 percent.
A horizon - Value: 5 or 6 dry, 3 or 4 moist.
Chroma: 2 or 3.
Btk1 horizon - Hue: 7.5YR or 10YR.
Value: 5 or 6 dry, 4 or 5 moist.
Chroma: 2 through 4 dry or moist.
Texture: Gravelly clay loam or gravelly loam.
Clay: 20 to 30 percent.
Rock fragments: 20 to 35 percent.
Other features: Common or many thin or moderately thick lime and silica coats and pendants on vertical and undersides of rock fragments.
Effervescent: Strongly effervescent or violently effervescent.
Btk2 horizon - Hue: 7.5YR or 10YR.
Value: 5 or 6 dry, 4 or 5 moist.
Texture: Gravelly clay loam, gravelly sandy clay loam.
Clay: 27 to 40 percent.
Rock fragments: 20 to 35 percent.
Bqkm horizon - Thickness of duripan ranges from 8 to 12 inches.
Other features: Common or many thin or moderately thick lime and silica coats and pendants on vertical and undersides of rock fragments.
Effervescent: Strongly effervescent or violently effervescent.
COMPETING SERIES: There are no competing series.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: Kanesprings soils are on summits of plateaus and side slopes of mountains and hills. These soils formed in residuum and colluvium from basalt, ignimbrite and volcanic tuffs of intermediate composition. Slopes are 8 to 50 percent. Elevations are 3,600 to 5,200 feet. The mean annual precipitation is 5 to 8 inches; the mean annual temperature is 57 to 62 degrees F., and the frost-free season is about 180 to 210 days.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the
Akela,
Wyva, and Nackey. The Akela soils lack an argillic horizon. Nackey soils lack a duripan and have more than 25 percent clay in the particle-size control section. The Wyva soils lack duripans and have mean annual soil temperature of less than 59 degrees F.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Well drained; medium to very rapid runoff; moderately slow permeability.
USE AND VEGETATION: Rangeland and wildlife habitat. The present vegetation is mainly blackbrush, yellow buckwheat, rabbitbrush, desert bitterbrush, creosotebush, desert needlegrass and threeawn.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Southern Nevada. The Kanesprings soils are not extensive. MLRA 30.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: PHOENIX, ARIZONA
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Lincoln County, Nevada, South Part, 1992.
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:
Argillic horizon - The zone from 3 to 18 inches (Btk1 and Btk2 horizons).
Duripan - The zone from about 18 to 27 inches. (Bqkm horizon).
Lithic contact - The boundary at 27 inches. (R horizon)
Particle-size control section - The zone from about 3 to 18 inches. (Btk horizons)
Responsibility for this series was transferred from Davis to Phoenix 9/2015. The last revision to the series was 5/2006. ET
National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.