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Taxonomic Soil Regions of Nevada

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Nevada is divided here into 17 soil regions based on great-group associations, which include 25 dominant great groups. The text is accompanied by a new General Soil Map of Nevada, which shows great-group associations at a scale of 1:2 million.

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  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

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Correspondence to Paul W. Blackburn .

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Blackburn, P., Fisher, J., Dollarhide, W., Merkler, D., Chiaretti, J., Bockheim, J. (2021). Taxonomic Soil Regions of Nevada. In: The Soils of Nevada. World Soils Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53157-7_7

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