IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hobbs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979NE073003
  • User Pedon ID: 1979NE073003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0148
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46881
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 40.6025009
  • Std. Longitude: -99.8891678
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 23W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 900 feet west and 1800 feet north of southeast corner
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE073—Gosper
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE073—Gosper County, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Marvin Dixon and Steve Scheinost
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, nonacid, mesic Mollic Ustifluvents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hobbs
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hobbs
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1979 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

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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
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    C1—20 to 56 centimeters (7.9 to 22.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; stratified silt loam; weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. common bedding planes
    C2—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; massive; hard, friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. common bedding planes
    C3—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. common bedding planes; grayish brown (10YR 5/2) material in worm casts and old root channels
    C4—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silt loam; massive; fragments; slight effervescence.