IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Calamus
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989NE057105
  • User Pedon ID: 89NE057105
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0180
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62113
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 40.1083336
  • Std. Longitude: -101.3925018
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 36W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 1400 feet N and 1900 feet E of the SW corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE057—Dundy
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Hoover
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Aquic Ustipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 105
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Calamus
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Calamus
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, mesic Aquic Ustipsamment
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1989 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

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    878

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    180

    43

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; sand; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P01217
    AC—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; sand; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P01218
    C1—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; sand; single grain; loose; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01219. horizon has nine, 1-2 mm strata of (10YR 4/2)
    C2—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; sand; single grain; loose; fragments; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01220. horizon has eleven, 1-3 mm strata of (10YR 4/3) sand, noticeably less gravel than the C1 horizon, and a few snail shells
    C3—76 to 132 centimeters (29.9 to 52.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; sand; 11 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine and medium distinct mottles; single grain; loose; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01221. horizon has fifteen, 1-3 mm strata of (10YR 4/3) sand; common fine and medium distinct 10YR64 mottles
    C4—132 to 203 centimeters (52.0 to 79.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; coarse sand; 11 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) fine and medium distinct mottles; single grain; fragments. Lab sample # 90P01222. common fine and medium distinct 10YR64 mottles