IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): BOLTZ
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1998NV031010
  • User Pedon ID: 98NV031010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1998NV031010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 99P0163
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11022
  • 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: 41.5339737
  • Std. Longitude: -119.5404129
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 42N
  • Range: 22E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: in a nonsectionalized township near the projected northeast corner
  • Location Description: About 17 miles east-southeast of Vya
  • State: Nevada
  • County: NV031—Washoe
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41119-E5—Massacre Creek, Nevada

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: SES, TM, JVC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Ashy, glassy, frigid Vitritorrandic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - BOLTZ
  • Taxonomic Class - Ashy, glassy, frigid Vitritorrandic Haploxerolls
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1998
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1998 (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

    ARTRV

    FEID

    PUTR2

    PUTR2

    Artemisia tridentata ssp. vaseyana

    Festuca idahoensis

    Purshia tridentata

    Purshia tridentata

    mountain big sagebrush

    Idaho fescue

    antelope bitterbrush

    antelope bitterbrush

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—28

    28—51

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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

    18

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    1768

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    356

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    7

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; 1 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P00819. gravelly ashy sandy loam; 10 percent cinders, 5 percent pebbles; (2 to 5 inches thick).
    A2—8 to 28 centimeters (3.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 99P00820. gravelly ashy sandy loam; 15 percent cinders and pumice pebbles; (4 to 9 inches thick).
    Bw—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 21.0 very fine and 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P00821. gravelly ashy sandy loam; 10 percent cinders and 5 percent pumice pebbles; (8 to 15 inches thick).
    2C—51 to 86 centimeters (20.1 to 33.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 3.0 very fine tubular and 21.0 very fine interstitial pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 99P00822. gravelly ashy sandy loam; 20 percent cinders and pumice pebbles; (5 to 16 inches thick).
    2Cr—86 centimeters (33.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4); soft; fragments. Lab sample # 99P00823. weathered andesitic tuff-breccia; can be dug with difficulty; many pumice pebbles; many distinct silica coats over bedrock.