IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): PAYPOINT
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1998NV031005C
  • User Pedon ID: 98NV031005C
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1998NV031005C
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0161
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11020
  • 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: 41.5834770
  • Std. Longitude: -119.7360382
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: N 32 degrees W 40 feet of main site
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV031—Washoe

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, glassy, mesic Durinodic Xeric Haplargids
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - PAYPOINT
  • Taxonomic Class - Ashy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, glassy, mesic Durinodic Xeric Haplargids
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/1998
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • 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 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    ACTH7

    ARTRW8

    Achnatherum thurberianum

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis

    Thurber's needlegrass

    Wyoming big sagebrush

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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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    229

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    10

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    A1—0 to 6 centimeters (0.0 to 2.4 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; 5 percent clay; strong medium, and thick platy structure; hard when dry, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P00812. ashy fine sandy loam.
    A2—6 to 13 centimeters (2.4 to 5.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; 12 percent clay; moderate thick platy structure; hard when dry, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 8.0 very fine roots and 2.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P00813. ashy fine sandy loam
    Bt—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; 22 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15.0 very fine roots and 5.0 medium and coarse roots and 10.0 fine roots; 3.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 99P00814. ashy sandy clay loam