IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Paypoint
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1998NV031001C
  • User Pedon ID: 1998NV031004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0157
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11016
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 23 feet northeast of type location at 29 degree azimuth (magnetic. 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
  • 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 #: 4
  • 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: 10/20/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; gravelly ashy sandy loam; 13 percent clay; moderate thick platy structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine and 3.0 fine vesicular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A2—4 to 11 centimeters (1.6 to 4.3 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; ashy sandy loam; 13 percent clay; moderate thick parts to weak thin platy structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 very fine vesicular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A3—11 to 19 centimeters (4.3 to 7.5 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; ashy sandy loam; 12 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine vesicular and 10.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt—19 to 34 centimeters (7.5 to 13.4 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), moist; ashy sandy loam; 18 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots; 3.0 very fine interstitial and 3.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine interstitial pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small