IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Canyon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990NE029003B
  • User Pedon ID: 90NE029003B
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0790
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62723
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 40.6102791
  • Std. Longitude: -101.9794464
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 41W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 300 feet S and 2350 feet E of the NW corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE029—Chase
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Vanek.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Aridic Ustorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Canyon
  • PSC - 15 to 30 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Canyon
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed (calcareous), mesic, shallow Ustic To
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    0—15

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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

    5

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    1070

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    90

    46

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; granular structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P04626. many very fine and fine roots
    C—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; massive; soft, very friable; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 90P04627. many very fine and fine roots