IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kyle
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990NE165001
  • User Pedon ID: 90NE165001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0888
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62821
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 42.9791679
  • Std. Longitude: -103.5749969
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35N
  • Range: 53W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet E and 2300 feet N of the SW corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE165—Sioux
  • MLRA: 60A—Pierre Shale Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Larry Ragon, Mark Willoughby, Wayne Vanek, Bob Ray
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Torrerts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kyle
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kyle
  • Taxonomic Class - Very-fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Typic Torrert
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 10
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—10

    10—102

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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

    4

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    —

    1143

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    180

    36

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    10

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; silty clay; 50 percent clay; medium subangular blocky, and fine and medium granular structure; very hard, very firm; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; very slight effervescence; moderately acid, pH 6.0, pH meter; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P05273. common very fine and fine roots throughout
    Bw1—10 to 51 centimeters (3.9 to 20.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; clay; 55 percent clay; coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P05274. few intersecting slickensides; common very fine and fine roots throughout
    Bw2—51 to 102 centimeters (20.1 to 40.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; clay; 55 percent clay; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent medium and coarse irregular gypsum masses; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P05275. few medium and coarse masses of gypsum concentrations; very few very fine roots throughout
    BC—102 to 124 centimeters (40.2 to 48.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, moist; clay; 55 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent medium and coarse irregular gypsum masses; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P05276. few medium and coarse masses of gypsum concentrations; very few very fine roots throughout
    C—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) interior, moist; clay; 50 percent clay; massive; very hard, very firm; 1 percent fine and medium irregular gypsum masses; fragments; very slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, pH meter. Lab sample # 90P05277. few fine and medium masses of gypsum concentrations