IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Burchard
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 88NE109002
  • User Pedon ID: 88NE109002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025

    • 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: 40.8686944
  • Std. Longitude: -96.8071111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 2250 feet east and 1203 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: 7229—Burchard clay loam, 11 to 17 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE109—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE109—Lancaster County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40096-G7—Emerald, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Bartles, T. Huscher, and L. Arnold
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Burchard
  • PSC - 20 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/6/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Burchard
  • Classificaton Date - 8/10/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous fine-loamy till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/10/1988 (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
    • Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Btk

    BCk

    51

    64

    64

    102

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Btk

    BCk

    51

    64

    64

    102

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Btk

    BCk

    51

    64

    64

    102

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—30

    20—64

    51—102

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    —44—

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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

    10

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, dry; clay loam; 31 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 28 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.
    A2—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, dry; clay loam; 25 percent sand; 43 percent silt; 32 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.
    BAt—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; clay loam; 31 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 38 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bt—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; clay; 27 percent sand; 30 percent silt; 43 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.3, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.
    Btk—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, dry; clay loam; 28 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 36 percent clay; fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard; 25 percent fine noncoherent cemented carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, pH meter; clear smooth boundary.
    BCk—64 to 102 centimeters (25.2 to 40.2 inches); 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, 50 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior and 50 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; clay loam; 26 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 36 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard; 25 percent noncoherent cemented carbonate nodules; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter.