IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Niobrara
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NE031086
  • User Pedon ID: 86NE031086
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986NE031086
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0109
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59405
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 42.9586105
  • Std. Longitude: -100.4644470
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35N
  • Range: 27W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 2580 feet E and 1300 feet N of SW corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE031—Cherry
  • MLRA: 66—Dakota-Nebraska Eroded Tableland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. R. Hoover and J. L. Husbands
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic, shallow Ustic Torripsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 86
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Niobrara
  • PSC - 25 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Snd
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1986 (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—15

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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

    14

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    823

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    45

    47

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    8

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    9

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    72576

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    1A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; loamy fine sand; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00650; moist when described;. (20-75 mm = 5% volume; none greater than 75 mm) rock fragments greater than 20 mm.; many very fine roots; many fine roots throughout
    1C—15 to 41 centimeters (5.9 to 16.1 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, moist; very gravelly fine sand; single grain; loose, loose; 2.5 very fine roots throughout; 2.5 medium tubular pores; 5 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00651; dry when described;. Tubular root channels end at Cr boundary. (20-75 mm = 20% volume; 5% greater than 75 mm) rock fragments greater than 20 mm.; common very fine roots throughout
    1Cr—41 to 127 centimeters (16.1 to 50.0 inches); white (2.5Y 8/1) interior weathered bedrock; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 87P00652; dry when described;. Roots spaced greater than 10 cm apart. Easy to dig with spade.; few fine roots in cracks