IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Beckton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989NE161026
  • User Pedon ID: 89NE161026
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0168
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62101
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 42.6266670
  • Std. Longitude: -102.6372223
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 33N
  • Range: 45W
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 450 feet W and 600 feet S of the NE corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE161—Sheridan
  • MLRA: 64—Mixed Sandy and Silty Tableland and Badlands

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Phil Young and Gary McCoy.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aridic Natrustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 26
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Beckton
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Whitelake
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Natrustoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1989 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    natric horizon

    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

    1

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    1142

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    46

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), black (10YR 2/1), moist; loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01136
    E—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); gray (10YR 6/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silt loam; moderate medium prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01137
    Btn—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium columnar, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01138
    BC—46 to 89 centimeters (18.1 to 35.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01139
    C1—89 to 127 centimeters (35.0 to 50.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silty clay loam; massive; slightly hard, firm; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P01140
    C2—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silty clay loam; massive; slightly hard, firm; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 90P01141