IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bufton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983NE165002
  • User Pedon ID: 83NE165002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0226
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53920
  • Print Date: 2/1/2025

    • 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: 42.8733330
  • Std. Longitude: -103.8666687
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 34N
  • Range: 56W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 1350 feet E and 25 feet S of center
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE165—Sioux
  • MLRA: 60A—Pierre Shale Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Willoughby and C. Derickson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Ustochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bufton
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bufton
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Ustollic Camborthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: alluvial fan
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1983 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—8

    8—71

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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

    6

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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; hard, firm; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01179
    1B1—8 to 25 centimeters (3.1 to 9.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01180
    1B2—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01181
    1BCk—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 11 percent lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P01182. common soft masses of lime concentrations
    1Ck—71 to 152 centimeters (28.0 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior, dry; clay loam; massive; hard, firm; 11 percent lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 84P01183. common soft masses of lime concentrations