IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Runyon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1998NV031163
  • User Pedon ID: 1998NV031163
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1998NV031163
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0166
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11025
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 40.8799333
  • Std. Longitude: -119.9534972
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35N
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: approximately 1,200 feet east and 2,640 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: about 600 feet south of Buckhorn Road
  • Map Unit: 422—Hart Camp-Runyon-Ashtre association
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV031—Washoe
  • MLRA: 23—Malheur High Plateau
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA685—Surprise Valley-Home Camp Area, California and Nevada
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40119-H8—Burnt Lake, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steven E. Slusser
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Vitrandic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 163
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Runyon (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ashtre Taxadjunct
  • Classificaton Date - 8/3/1998
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash and/or colluvium and/or residuum weathered from volcanic rock
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: plateau
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent moderate weathered andesite at 94cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 10.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter volcanic, unspecified, 5.00 percent nonflat 250- to 600-millimeter volcanic, unspecified, 10.00 percent nonflat 75- to 250-millimeter volcanic, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R021XE044CA Cool Loam 12-16 Fine-loamy

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/3/1998 (actual site observation date)
  • Plant Association Name: R021XE044CA
  • 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

    ACOCO

    ACTH7

    ARTRV

    CHVI8

    ELEL5

    FEID

    LECI4

    PSSPS

    PUTR2

    Achnatherum occidentale ssp. occidentale

    Achnatherum thurberianum

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana

    Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus

    Elymus elymoides

    Festuca idahoensis

    Leymus cinereus

    Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. spicata

    Purshia tridentata

    western needlegrass

    Thurber's needlegrass

    mountain big sagebrush

    yellow rabbitbrush

    squirreltail

    Idaho fescue

    basin wildrye

    bluebunch wheatgrass

    antelope bitterbrush

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    94 - 183

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

    mollic epipedon

    volcanic glass

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    paralithic materials

    0—48

    0—65

    13—79

    79—

    79—183

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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

    8

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    1970

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    60

    381

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    6.7

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    7.8

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; cobbly ashy loam; 15 percent clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many (5.0) very fine roots and many (5.0) fine roots; many (3.0) very fine tubular and many (3.0) very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 75-162-250 millimeter andesite fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A2—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), moist; ashy loam; 16 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; many (5.0) very fine roots and many (5.0) fine roots; many (3.0) very fine vesicular and tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    BAt—13 to 27 centimeters (5.1 to 10.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), moist; gravelly ashy loam; 19 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many (5.0) very fine and fine roots and many (5.0) medium roots; many (3.0) very fine tubular pores; 20 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), dry, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-162-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter andesite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—27 to 48 centimeters (10.6 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; gravelly ashy loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many (5.0) very fine to medium roots; many (3.0) very fine tubular and many (3.0) fine tubular pores; 20 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), dry, and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter andesite fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—48 to 64 centimeters (18.9 to 25.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) crushed, brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; gravelly ashy loam; 25 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; many (5.0) very fine roots and common (4.0) fine and medium roots; many (3.0) very fine and fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat 75-162-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 15 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter andesite fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—64 to 79 centimeters (25.2 to 31.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3), reddish brown (5YR 4/3) crushed, moist; cobbly loam; 25 percent clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common (4.0) very fine to medium roots; many (3.0) very fine and fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), dry, and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent by volume nonflat 250-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 10 percent by volume nonflat 2-39-75 millimeter andesite fragments and 20 percent by volume nonflat 75-162-250 millimeter andesite fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear irregular boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Crt—79 to 142 centimeters (31.1 to 55.9 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/3) bedrock; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; clear irregular boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Cr—142 to 183 centimeters (55.9 to 72.0 inches); pinkish white (7.5YR 8/2) bedrock; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7.; observed in pit, small