IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Colby
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981NE029001
  • User Pedon ID: 81NE029001
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-benchmark lab pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 82P0174
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50411
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 40.4952774
  • Std. Longitude: -101.4716644
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 37W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 352 meters E and 53 meters S of NW corner
  • Location Description: Atlas sheet 41 photo 274-35
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE029—Chase

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. E. Paden and R. V. Staples
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Aridic Ustorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Colby
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Colby
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Ustic Torriorthent
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1981
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    32

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    1006

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    45

    48

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    1A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00920. common very fine roots throughout
    1AC—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 82P00921. common very fine roots throughout
    1Ck—25 to 152 centimeters (9.8 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; massive; soft, very friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 very fine tubular pores; 55 percent carbonate coats on faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 82P00922. many lime or carbonate coats surface features on faces of peds; few very fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 215252; continuous - phpvsfiid 215252