IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Colby
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NE029001
  • User Pedon ID: 88NE029001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0140
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61244
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 40.4130554
  • Std. Longitude: -101.6269455
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 38W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 2200 feet north of the southwest corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE029—Chase
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Hoover
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Colby
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed (calcareous) Ustic Torriorthents
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1988 (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
    • 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
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    1030

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    46

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    C—305 to 320 centimeters (120.1 to 126.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable; 11 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 89P01054. common fine and medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations
    Ab—396 to 411 centimeters (155.9 to 161.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable; 30 percent fine and medium carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 89P01055. many fine and medium carbonate threads concentrations
    C'—518 to 533 centimeters (203.9 to 209.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable; 30 percent fine and medium carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 89P01056. many fine and medium carbonate threads concentrations