IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Unnamed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NE031087
  • User Pedon ID: 86NE031087
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986NE031087
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0107
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59403
  • 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: 42.9572220
  • Std. Longitude: -100.4491653
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35N
  • Range: 27W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 1500 feet E and 1000 feet N of SW corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE031—Cherry
  • MLRA: 66—Dakota-Nebraska Eroded Tableland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. L. Husbands and D. R. Hoover
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 87
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Unnamed
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed Entic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 89 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Landform: mesa or butte
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.05 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 35
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    0—68

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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

    1

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    820

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    90

    47

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    9

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    10

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    72576

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    1A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00638; moist when described;. many very fine roots; many fine roots throughout
    1AC—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00639; moist when described;. many very fine roots; many fine roots throughout
    1C—38 to 89 centimeters (15.0 to 35.0 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) crushed, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) crushed, moist; fine gravelly fine sand; single grain; loose, loose; 2.5 very fine roots and 2.5 fine roots around fragments; 5 percent by volume 20-48-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 27 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00640; dry when described;. common very fine roots; common fine roots matted around stones; effervescence is continuous
    1Cr—89 to 127 centimeters (35.0 to 50.0 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) interior, light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior, moist; weathered bedrock; 0.5 very fine roots in cracks; fragments. Lab sample # 87P00641. Sandstone can be easily chipped out in various sizes with spade.; few very fine roots in cracks