IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): McKelvie
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984NE031015
  • User Pedon ID: 84NE031015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0668
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 56934
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 42.7966652
  • Std. Longitude: -100.9213867
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 33N
  • Range: 31W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet east and 700 feet south of Northwest corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE031—Cherry
  • MLRA: 65—Nebraska Sand Hills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. Ragon, G. McCoy, D. Berka, J. Husbands, Markley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Typic Ustipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - McKelvie
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - McKelvie
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, mesic Typic Ustipsamment
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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—38

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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

    42

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    824

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    45

    51

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    1A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; loamy fine sand; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P03458
    1AC—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; loamy fine sand; weak coarse prismatic, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03459. Few fine sandstone fragments.
    1C1—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; loamy fine sand; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P03460. Common fine sand fragments.
    1C2—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; fine sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; loose; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P03461. Many fine calcareous sandstone fragments.
    1C3—91 to 152 centimeters (35.8 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior, dry; fine sand; single grain; loose; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P03462. Many fine calcareous sandstone fragments; few fragments up to 6 inches in diameter.