IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blendon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1980NE121165
  • User Pedon ID: 1980NE121165
  • User Site Association ID: NE121-TUDS
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0416
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48192
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 41.2177778
  • Std. Longitude: -98.0019444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet south and 100 feet west of the NE corner
  • Map Unit: Bd—Blendon fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes6508—Blendon fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE121—Merrick
  • MLRA: 71—Central Nebraska Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE121—Merrick County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41098-B1—Hord, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert S. Pollock
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 165
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blendon
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Blendon
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/19/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/19/1980 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—61

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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

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loamy sand; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P02243. 80P2243
    A—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loamy sand; moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P02244. 80P2244
    Bw—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loamy sand; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P02245. 80P2245
    BC—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; coarse sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P02246. 80P2246
    C1—76 to 132 centimeters (29.9 to 52.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; coarse sand; single grain; loose, very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P02247. 80P2247
    C2—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6. Lab sample # 80P02248. 80P2248