IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alliance
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985NE033054
  • User Pedon ID: 85NE033054
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0847
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57113
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 41.2502785
  • Std. Longitude: -103.2758331
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 52W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 1300 feet E and 370 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Cheyenne County, NE. 3 miles NE of Potter.
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE033—Cheyenne
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LG Ragon, GA Borchers, JR Culver, NP Helzer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Calcidic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 54
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alliance
  • PSC - 17 to 54 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alliance
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aridic Argiustoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—17

    17—54

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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

    0

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    1387

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    45

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    257830

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    1Ap—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04573; dry when described;. Very few limstone pebbles on surface.; common fine roots throughout
    1Bt1—17 to 34 centimeters (6.7 to 13.4 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04574; moist when described;. common fine roots throughout
    1Bt2—34 to 54 centimeters (13.4 to 21.3 inches); 85 percent brown (10YR 5/3) crushed and 15 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, 85 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed and 15 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 11 percent coarse cylindrical insect casts; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04575; moist when described;. common coarse insects casts concentrations; common fine roots throughout
    1BCk—54 to 84 centimeters (21.3 to 33.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; 23 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 11 percent fine threadlike lime masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04576; moist when described;. common fine soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1C—84 to 114 centimeters (33.1 to 44.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04577; moist when described;. few fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    2Cr—114 to 200 centimeters (44.9 to 78.7 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3) crushed, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) crushed, moist; weathered bedrock; massive; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 85P04578. effervescence is continuous