IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Valentine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1970NE041015
  • User Pedon ID: 1970NE041015
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1970NE041015
  • User Site Association ID: NE041-TUDS
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2191
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36343
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 41.7383056
  • Std. Longitude: -100.1060000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20 N
  • Range: 24 W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet south and 2490 feet west of NE corner
  • Map Unit: VaE—Valentine fine sand, rolling4807—Valentine fine sand, rolling
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE041—Custer
  • MLRA: 65—Nebraska Sand Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE041—Custer County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41100-F1—Linscott, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Lester Sherfey, Larry E. Brown, and Charles C. Cotter
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Typic Ustipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Valentine
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Valentine
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian sands
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/6/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    ANHA

    CALO

    SCSC

    Andropogon hallii

    Calamovilfa longifolia

    Schizachyrium scoparium

    sand bluestem

    prairie sandreed

    little bluestem

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—15

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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

    9

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    315

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; fine sand; single grain; loose; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A17254. noncalcareous
    AC—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; fine sand; single grain; loose; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A17256. noncalcareous
    C—30 to 152 centimeters (11.8 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; fine sand; single grain; loose; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2. Lab sample # 40A17258. noncalcareous