IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Laird
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NE057022
  • User Pedon ID: 88NE057022
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0944
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61062
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 40.3386116
  • Std. Longitude: -102.0113907
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 42W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet N and 2100 feet W of SE corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE057—Dundy
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Hoover and C. Morris
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Calciustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 22
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Laird
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Laird
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Aquic Calciorthid
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: playa or alluvial flat
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1988 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    albic horizon

    calcic horizon

    18—41

    41—140

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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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    1081

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    48

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loamy fine sand; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05128. many fine and medium roots
    E1—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); gray (10YR 6/1), gray (10YR 5/1), moist; loamy fine sand; weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P05129. many fine and medium roots
    E2—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); gray (10YR 6/1), gray (10YR 5/1), moist; loamy fine sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P05130. many fine and medium roots
    Bk1—41 to 71 centimeters (16.1 to 28.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; fine sandy loam; 1 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; 30 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05131. many fine and medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; many fine and medium roots; few fine distinct 2.5Y66 mottles
    Bk2—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; loam; 11 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; 30 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05132. many fine and medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; many fine and medium roots; common medium distinct 2.5Y66 mottles
    Bk3—91 to 114 centimeters (35.8 to 44.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; 11 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; 30 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05133. many fine and medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; many fine and medium roots; common medium distinct 2.5Y66 mottles
    Bk4—114 to 140 centimeters (44.9 to 55.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; 11 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots; 30 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P05134. many fine and medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few fine and medium roots; common medium distinct 2.5Y66 mottles
    C—140 to 178 centimeters (55.1 to 70.1 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; loam; 11 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) medium distinct mottles; massive; hard, very friable; 30 percent medium carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 88P05135. many medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common medium distinct 2.5Y66 mottles