IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Runyon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1998NV031167
  • User Pedon ID: 1998NV031167
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1998NV031167
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0167
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11026
  • 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: 40.8749083
  • Std. Longitude: -119.9737472
  • Datum: WGS84
  • 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-G8—Hole In The Ground, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steven E. Slusser
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, isotic, frigid Vitrandic Argixerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 167
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Runyon
  • 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 - 8/10/1998
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash and/or residuum weathered from andesitic tuff
  • 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 tuff, unspecified at 64cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 15.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter 5.00 percent nonflat 250- to 600-millimeter 1.00 percent nonflat 600- to 1000-millimeter 10.00 percent nonflat 75- to 250-millimeter
  • 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: 8/10/1998 (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

    ARTRV

    CASTI2

    CHVI8

    ELEL5

    FEID

    LECI4

    PSSPS

    PUTR2

    Achnatherum occidentale ssp. occidentale

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana

    Castilleja

    Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus

    Elymus elymoides

    Festuca idahoensis

    Leymus cinereus

    Pseudoroegneria spicata ssp. spicata

    Purshia tridentata

    western needlegrass

    mountain big sagebrush

    Indian paintbrush

    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

    64 - 89

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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—64

    0—36

    13—64

    64—

    64—89

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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

    16

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    1951

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    17

    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); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; cobbly ashy sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 99.0 very fine roots; 15.0 very fine interstitial pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter andesite fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A2—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; gravelly ashy sandy loam; 8 percent clay; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 80.0 very fine and fine roots; 15.0 very fine interstitial pores; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter andesite fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), moist; very cobbly ashy sandy loam; 15 percent clay; strong fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20.0 very fine roots and 52.0 fine and medium roots; 15.0 very fine tubular pores; 20 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 10 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter andesite fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt2—36 to 64 centimeters (14.2 to 25.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), moist; gravelly sandy clay loam; 21 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 8.0 very fine to medium roots; 10.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine pores; 20 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter tuff, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter tuff, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume moderately coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter tuff, unspecified fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter tuff, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; abrupt irregular boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Cr—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), gray (5Y 5/1), moist; bedrock; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8.; observed in pit, small