IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Runyon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1998NV031176
  • User Pedon ID: 1998NV031176
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1998NV031176
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0168
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11027
  • 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: 40.8791889
  • Std. Longitude: -119.9515556
  • 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-H8—Burnt Lake, 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 #: 176
  • 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 - 8/27/1998
  • 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 89cm with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments: 20.00 percent nonflat 2- to 75-millimeter 5.00 percent nonflat 250- to 600-millimeter 0.50 percent nonflat 600- to 1000-millimeter 5.00 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: 8/27/1998 (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

    BRTE

    CAFI

    ELEL5

    FEID

    LECI4

    PUTR2

    Achnatherum occidentale ssp. occidentale

    Achnatherum thurberianum

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana

    Bromus tectorum

    Carex filifolia

    Elymus elymoides

    Festuca idahoensis

    Leymus cinereus

    Purshia tridentata

    western needlegrass

    Thurber's needlegrass

    mountain big sagebrush

    cheatgrass

    threadleaf sedge

    squirreltail

    Idaho fescue

    basin wildrye

    antelope bitterbrush

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

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    89 - 152

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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—51

    0—89

    13—89

    89—

    89—152

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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

    7

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    1972

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    2

    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 brown (7.5YR 3/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; gravelly 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 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter andesite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A2—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; gravelly ashy fine sandy loam; 12 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 50.0 very fine and fine roots; 15.0 very fine vesicular and tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter andesite fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    BAt—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; cobbly ashy loam; 15 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20.0 very fine roots and 3.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 20.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter andesite fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; very cobbly ashy loam; 25 percent clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 8.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine and medium roots; 15.0 very fine tubular and 5.0 fine pores; 20 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 15 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—38 to 51 centimeters (15.0 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; very gravelly ashy clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 8.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine and medium roots; 10.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter andesite fragments and 15 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter andesite fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt3—51 to 89 centimeters (20.1 to 35.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; very paragravelly ashy clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine to medium roots; 10.0 very fine tubular and 3.0 fine pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and in pores; 5 percent by volume very strongly coherent cemented 75-162-250 millimeter andesite fragments and 50 percent by volume moderately coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter andesite fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Crt—89 to 122 centimeters (35.0 to 48.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1), brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; bedrock; 10 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry, clay films on bedrock; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear irregular boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Cr—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; bedrock; 3 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), dry, clay films on bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small