IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Valent
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NE057040
  • User Pedon ID: 88NE057040
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1988NE057040
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0946
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61064
  • Print Date: 1/29/2025

    • 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: 40.2983322
  • Std. Longitude: -101.9808350
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 41W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 1700 feet N and 1800 feet E of the SW corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE057—Dundy
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Hoover and C. Morris
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Ustic Torripsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 40
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Valent
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Valent
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, mesic Ustic Torripsamment
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: dune
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • 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 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    TRITI

    Triticum

    wheat

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—18

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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

    7

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    1085

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    135

    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) and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; fine sand; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P05144. this horizon has evidently been exposed to significant wind erosion in the way the two moist colors seem to be layered and banded; many fine roots
    AC1—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P05145. many fine roots
    AC2—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05146. many fine roots
    C1—48 to 79 centimeters (18.9 to 31.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; fine sand; single grain; loose, loose; 0.5 medium roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05147. few medium roots
    C2—79 to 112 centimeters (31.1 to 44.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; fine sand; single grain; loose, loose; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05148
    C3—112 to 142 centimeters (44.1 to 55.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; fine sand; single grain; loose, loose; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05149. this horizon has a 1/4 inch llamela of (10YR 7/3 moist) sand at 54 inches
    C4—142 to 173 centimeters (55.9 to 68.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; fine sand; single grain; loose, loose; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P05150
    C5—173 to 203 centimeters (68.1 to 79.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; fine sand; single grain; loose, loose; fragments. Lab sample # 88P05151. this horizon has common 1/4 inch llamelae of (10YR 7/3 moist) fine sand