IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Paypoint
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1998NV031001A
  • User Pedon ID: 1998NV031002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0155
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11014
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 41.5813889
  • Std. Longitude: -119.7347222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 42N
  • Range: 20E
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: Near the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Sampled 1 meter south of pedon 001 in main pit. This site is located about 6.5 miles east of Vya and 150 feet south of county road 8A at the junction of the dirt track to Lone Spring. It is on the USGS Painted Point 7.5 minute topographic quadrangle. In a nonsectioned township near the projected northeast corner of section 9.
  • Map Unit: 1045—Paypoint-Langston association
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV031—Washoe
  • MLRA: 23—Malheur High Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NV759—Washoe County, Nevada, North Part

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom McKay, Joe Chiaretti
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, glassy over mixed, mesic Durinodic Xeric Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Paypoint
  • PSC - 19 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/22/2004
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture Subclass - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Paypoint
  • Classificaton Date - 10/19/1998
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from acidic tuff over lacustrine deposits derived from basalt
  • Landscape: bolson
  • Landform: lagoon on beach plain
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/19/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - shrub cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - native shrubs
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    abrupt textural change

    0—19

    19—33

    38—

    —19—

    —14—

    —-
    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

    1

    —

    —

    1700

    —

    235

    229

    —

    90

    8

    —

    —

    9

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —
    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; ashy fine sandy loam; moderate thick platy parts to moderate very fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 10.0 very fine vesicular pores; fragments.; observed in trench
    A2—5 to 12 centimeters (2.0 to 4.7 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; ashy fine sandy loam; moderate very thick platy parts to weak very thin platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine tubular and 5.0 very fine vesicular and 2.0 fine pores; fragments.; observed in trench
    A3—12 to 19 centimeters (4.7 to 7.5 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; ashy loam; moderate very thick platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 2.0 very fine vesicular and 2.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 fine pores; fragments.; observed in trench
    Bt—19 to 33 centimeters (7.5 to 13.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; ashy loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots and 1.0 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular and 0.5 fine pores; fragments.; observed in trench
    Bqk—33 to 38 centimeters (13.0 to 15.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; ashy loam; strong medium, and thick platy structure; very hard, firm, very weakly coherent, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots between peds and 0.5 medium roots and 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments.; observed in trench