IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gates
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1984NE077041
  • User Pedon ID: 1984NE077041
  • User Site Association ID: NE077-TUDS
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0230
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55946
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 41.6250000
  • Std. Longitude: -98.4455556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19 N
  • Range: 10 W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 75 feet north and 400 feet west of the SE corner
  • Map Unit: GfC2—Gates silt loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes, eroded9029—Gates silt loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE077—Greeley
  • MLRA: 71—Central Nebraska Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE077—Greeley County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41098-E4—Spalding SW, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jay R. Wilson and John Beck
  • 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 SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 41
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gates
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/14/2012
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gates
  • Classificaton Date - 9/25/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • 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: 9/25/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    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

    4

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P1137
    AC—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P1138
    C—30 to 152 centimeters (11.8 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1. Lab sample # 85P1139