IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kuma
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990NE029001B
  • User Pedon ID: 90NE029001B
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0785
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62718
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 40.6772232
  • Std. Longitude: -102.0500031
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 42W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 2200 feet S and 300 feet E of the NW corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE029—Chase
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. Ragon and W. Vanek.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kuma
  • PSC - 15 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kuma
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Pachic Argiustoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—102

    15—145

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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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    1095

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    46

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P04598
    Bt—15 to 53 centimeters (5.9 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay loam; medium prismatic, and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P04599
    2Btb—53 to 102 centimeters (20.9 to 40.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; silty clay loam; coarse prismatic, and fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 15 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) coats; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P04600. few coats surface features
    2Btbk—102 to 145 centimeters (40.2 to 57.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; coarse prismatic, and fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 30 percent carbonate masses and 11 percent carbonate threads; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 90P04601. many soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common carbonate threads concentrations