IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gates
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1974NE041003
  • User Pedon ID: 1974NE041003
  • User Site Association ID: NE041-TUDS
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0136
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45145
  • 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: 41.5538889
  • Std. Longitude: -99.8927778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18 N
  • Range: 22 W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet north and 2440 feet west of the SE corner
  • Map Unit: GfD—Gates very fine sandy loam, 6 to 11 percent slopes9038—Gates very fine sandy loam, 6 to 11 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE041—Custer
  • MLRA: 71—Central Nebraska Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE041—Custer County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41099-E8—Anselmo SW, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gilbert A. Bowman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Typic Ustorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gates
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gates
  • Classificaton Date - 11/18/1974
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landform: hillslope on upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/18/1974 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—13

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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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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00696
    AC—13 to 46 centimeters (5.1 to 18.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P00697
    C—46 to 152 centimeters (18.1 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; 10 percent threadlike carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2. Lab sample # 78P00698