IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ponderosa
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989NE161001
  • User Pedon ID: 89NE161001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0547
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61649
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 42.9638901
  • Std. Longitude: -102.4511108
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35N
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 1700 feet E and 1800 feet N of SW corner
  • Location Description: Sheridan County, NE.
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE161—Sheridan
  • MLRA: 64—Mixed Sandy and Silty Tableland and Badlands

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gary McCoy and Phil Young.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Torriorthentic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ponderosa
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Jayem
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Aridic Haplustoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: 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

    24

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    1170

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    90

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    A—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; very fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03046
    Bw—33 to 81 centimeters (13.0 to 31.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03047
    C1—81 to 114 centimeters (31.9 to 44.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03048
    C2—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; loamy very fine sand; single grain; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 89P03049