IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): McConaughy
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NE101014
  • User Pedon ID: 88NE101014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0192
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61296
  • Print Date: 1/10/2025

    • 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: 41.2180557
  • Std. Longitude: -102.0344467
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 41W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 475 feet E and 1260 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Keith County, NE.
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE101—Keith
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Scheinost and Norm Helzer.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - McConaughy
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Snd
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    mollic epipedon

    0—0

    0—0

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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

    12

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    1036

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    90

    48

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P01173
    A2—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P01174
    Bw1—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P01175
    Bw2—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P01176
    BC—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 1 percent fine carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P01177. few fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations
    C1—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; 1 percent fine carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P01178. few fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations
    C2—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; 1 percent fine carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 89P01179. few fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations