IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Paypoint
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1998NV031001B
  • User Pedon ID: 1998NV031003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1998NV031001B
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0156
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11015
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: S 70 E 15 feet from 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: Steve Slusser
  • 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 #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Paypoint
  • PSC - 18 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: 10/20/1998 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ARTRW8

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

    Wyoming big sagebrush

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—18

    18—38

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    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

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    1700

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    235

    229

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    90

    8

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    9

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    A1—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; ashy fine sandy loam; 10 percent clay; weak very thin platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 30.0 very fine roots throughout; 15.0 very fine vesicular pores; 5 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A2—7 to 18 centimeters (2.8 to 7.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; ashy sandy loam; 13 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 20.0 very fine roots and 6.0 fine roots throughout; 20.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; ashy sandy clay loam; 23 percent clay; moderate fine, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 5.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots throughout; 6.0 very fine and 3.0 fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 15 percent distinct clay films on surfaces along pores and 40 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains and 40 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small