IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Valent
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985NE135030
  • User Pedon ID: 85NE135030
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1985NE135030
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0841
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57107
  • 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: 40.7377777
  • Std. Longitude: -101.6227798
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9N
  • Range: 38W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 8 miles S and 5 miles E of Grant SW 1/4 NW 1/4
  • Location Description: Perkins County, NE. UTM Zone 14; 4512840 meters N; 278450 meters E
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE135—Perkins
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LG Ragon, HE Paden, NP Helzer, SA Scheinost
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Ustic Torripsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 30
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Valent
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Valent
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, mesic Ustic Torripsamment
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: dune
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • 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 - 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOGR2

    CALO

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Calamovilfa longifolia

    blue grama

    prairie sandreed

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

    ochric epipedon

    0—14

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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

    12

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    1028

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    0

    46

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    10

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    255090

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    1A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); 30 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed and 40 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed and 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; sand; 92 percent sand; 5 percent silt; 3 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04529; dry when described;. many very fine and fine roots throughout
    1AC—14 to 27 centimeters (5.5 to 10.6 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; sand; 90 percent sand; 7 percent silt; 3 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04530; dry when described;. common very fine and fine roots throughout
    1C1—27 to 80 centimeters (10.6 to 31.5 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, moist; sand; 96 percent sand; 2 percent silt; 2 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04531; dry when described;. Bedded sands-coarser at 31-37 and 56-70. 23.5 degrees C at 50 cm.; few very fine and fine roots throughout
    1C2—80 to 125 centimeters (31.5 to 49.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, moist; sand; 98 percent sand; 1 percent silt; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04532; moist when described;. few fine roots throughout
    1C3—125 to 169 centimeters (49.2 to 66.5 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior and brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed and 10 percent brown (10YR 4/3), moist; sand; 98 percent sand; 1 percent silt; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04533; moist when described;. Lamellae 1 cm thick, less than 10% of area.; few fine roots throughout
    1C4—169 to 190 centimeters (66.5 to 74.8 inches); 60 percent brown (10YR 5/3) crushed and 40 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; sand; 94 percent sand; 3 percent silt; 3 percent clay; single grain; soft, very friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments, by hcl, 1n; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04534; moist when described;. Strata: 60% of area are loamy sand strata 1 cm to 8 cm thick.; few fine roots throughout
    1C5—190 to 285 centimeters (74.8 to 112.2 inches); 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) crushed and 70 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; sand; single grain; soft, very friable; fragments, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 85P04535; moist when described;. Strata: become thinner and less common and are 50% of area; 20.5 degrees C at 200 cm.