IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lockton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 76NE121017
  • User Pedon ID: 76NE121017
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 76NE121017
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2129
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36284
  • 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: 41.1236115
  • Std. Longitude: -98.0394440
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 1800 feet north and 100 feet west of the SE corner
  • Map Unit: 8515—Lockton loam, rarely flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE121—Merrick
  • MLRA: 71—Central Nebraska Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE121—Merrick County, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert Pollock, Isaac Knapton
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon #: 17
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Lockton
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/20/2006
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lex
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy alluvium over sandy and gravelly alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/14/1976 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    SOBIB

    ZEMA

    Sorghum bicolor ssp. bicolor

    Zea mays

    grain sorghum

    corn

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

    mollic epipedon

    0—58

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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

    1

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    635

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    11

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A16855
    A—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; loam; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A16856
    AC—33 to 58 centimeters (13.0 to 22.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A16857
    C1—58 to 69 centimeters (22.8 to 27.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; coarse sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A16858
    2C2—69 to 152 centimeters (27.2 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose, loose; 30 percent medium distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese masses; 22 percent by volume 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # 40A16859