Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Soil-Forming Factors

  • Chapter
  • First Online:
Book cover The Soils of Nevada

Part of the book series: World Soils Book Series ((WSBS))

  • 238 Accesses

Abstract

The soils of Nevada result from the interplay of five soil-forming factors: climate, organisms, relief, parent material, and time. This chapter considers the effects of present and past climate, vegetation, relief, geologic structure, surficial geology, time, and humans on soil formation in the state.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 109.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 139.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 139.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Adams KD, Wesnousky SG (1999) The Lake Lahontan highstand: age, surficial characteristics, soil development, and regional shoreline correlation. Geomorphology 30:357–392

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Alexander EB, Nettleton WD (1977) Post-Mazama Natrargids in Dixie Valley. Nevada. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 41:1210–1212

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Blackwelder EB (1931) Pleistocene glaciation in the Sierra Nevada and basin ranges. Geol Soc Am Bull 42:865–922

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Blank RR, Young JA, Lugaski T (1996) Pedogenesis on talus slopes, the Buckskin Range, Nevada, USA. Geoderma 71:121–142

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chadwick OA, Davis JO (1990) Soil-forming intervals caused by eolian sediment pulses in the Lahontan Basin, northwestern Nevada. Geology 18:243–246

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Chadwick OA, Hendricks DM, Nettleton WD (1989) Silicification of Holocene soils, in northern Monitor Valley. Nevada. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 53:158–164

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Chadwick OA, Nettleton WD, Staidl GJ (1995) Soil polygenesis as a function of Quaternary climate change, northern Great Basin, USA. Geoderma 68:1–26

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Harden JW, Taylor EM, Hill C, Mark RK, McFadden LD, Reheis MC, Sowers JM, Wells SG (1991a) Rates of soil development from four chronosequences in the southern Great Basin. Quat. Res. 35:383–399

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Harden, J.W., Taylor, E.M., McFadden, L.D. and Reheis, M.C. 1991b. Calcic, gypsic, and siliceous soil chronosequences in arid and semi-arid environments. In: Nettleton, W.D (Ed.) Occurrence, Characteristics, and Genesis of Carbonate, Gypsum, and Silica Accumulations in Soils. SSSA Spec. Pap., No. 26, pp. I-16

    Google Scholar 

  • Kellogg CE (1930) Preliminary study of the profiles of the principal soil types of Wisconsin. Wisc Geol Natural Hist Surv Bull. No. 77A. 113 pp

    Google Scholar 

  • Nettleton WD, Witty JE, Nelson RE, Hawley JW (1975) Genesis of argillic horizons in soils of desert areas of the southwestern United States. Soil Sci Soc Am J 39:919–926

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Orndorff RL, Van Hoesen JG, Saines M (2003) Implications of new evidence for late Quaternary glaciation in the Spring Mountains, southern Nevada. J Ariz-Nev Acad Sci 36:37–45

    Google Scholar 

  • Reheis MC, Sowers JM, Taylor EM, McFadden LD, Harden JW (1992) Morphology and genesis of carbonate soils on the Kyle Canyon fan, Nevada, U.S.A. Geoderma 52:303–342

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  • Richmond GM (1986) Stratigraphy and correlation of glacial deposits of the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado Plateau and the ranges of the Great Basin. Quat Sci Rev 5:99–127

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Schultz, B., McAdoo, K. 2002. Common sagebrush in Nevada. Univ. of Nevada Coop. Ext. Spec. Publ. SP-02–02. 9 pp

    Google Scholar 

  • Sharp RP (1938) Pleistocene glaciation in the Ruby-East Humboldt Range, northeastern Nevada. J Geomorph 1:296–323

    Google Scholar 

  • Soil Survey Staff (2014) Keys to Soil Taxonomy. 12th edit. U.S. Dept. Agric., Natural Resour. Conserv. Serv., Linoln, NE

    Google Scholar 

  • Tueller PT (1975) The natural vegetation of Nevada. Mentzelia 1:3–28

    Google Scholar 

  • Tueller PT (1989) Vegetation and land use in Nevada. Rangelands 11(5):204–210

    Google Scholar 

  • Wayne WJ (1984) Glacial chronology of the Ruby Mountains-East Humbolt Range. Nevada. Quat. Res. 21:286–303

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (retired), Elko, NV, USA

    Paul W. Blackburn

  2. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (retired), Reno, NV, USA

    John B. Fisher

  3. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (retired), Reno, NV, USA

    William E. Dollarhide

  4. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (retired), Boulder City, NV, USA

    Douglas J. Merkler

  5. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (retired), Reno, NV, USA

    Joseph V. Chiaretti

  6. Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin (retired), Madison, WI, USA

    James G. Bockheim

Authors
  1. Paul W. Blackburn
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. John B. Fisher
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. William E. Dollarhide
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Douglas J. Merkler
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Joseph V. Chiaretti
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. James G. Bockheim
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Paul W. Blackburn .

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Blackburn, P., Fisher, J., Dollarhide, W., Merkler, D., Chiaretti, J., Bockheim, J. (2021). Soil-Forming Factors. In: The Soils of Nevada. World Soils Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53157-7_3

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation