IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Niobrara
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986NE031091
  • User Pedon ID: 86NE031091
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1986NE031091
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0110
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59406
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 42.8030548
  • Std. Longitude: -101.0630569
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 33N
  • Range: 32W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 1150 feet N and 250 feet W of SE corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE031—Cherry
  • MLRA: 65—Nebraska Sand Hills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. R. Hoover
  • 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 #: 91
  • 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: mountain valleys or canyons
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • 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

    ANHA

    BOCU

    Andropogon hallii

    Bouteloua curtipendula

    sand bluestem

    sideoats grama

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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

    30

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    884

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    180

    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 5/3) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; gravelly loamy fine sand; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 very fine roots and 5.5 fine roots throughout; 25 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00653; moist when described;. Rock fragments by volume, 20-75 mm = 5%.; many very fine roots; many fine roots throughout
    1C—15 to 41 centimeters (5.9 to 16.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; fine sand; single grain; loose, loose; 2.5 fine roots and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 87P00654; dry when described;. Coarse roots are ponderosa pine. Rock fragments by volume 20-75 mm = 5%.; common fine roots; few coarse roots throughout
    1Cr—41 to 76 centimeters (16.1 to 29.9 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2) interior weathered bedrock; 0.5 coarse roots in cracks; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 87P00655; dry when described;. Coarse roots are from ponderosa pine and are spaced more than 10 cm apart. Cr difficult to chip with spade.; few coarse roots in cracks