IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alliance
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1993NE013001
  • User Pedon ID: 93NE013001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0117
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66305
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 42.2102776
  • Std. Longitude: -103.1766663
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26N
  • Range: 50W
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 1700 feet west and 125 feet north of the southeast corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE013—Box Butte
  • MLRA: 64—Mixed Sandy and Silty Tableland and Badlands
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE013—Box Butte County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42103-B2—Hemingford 4 NW, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MEW, DAV
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alliance
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/18/1993
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: tableland
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: moderate weathered sandstone, calcareous
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/18/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 44
  • 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: wind erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    18—30

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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

    2

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    1298

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) oxidized, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00791
    Bt—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) oxidized, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00792
    BCk—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) oxidized, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00793
    C1—51 to 86 centimeters (20.1 to 33.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) oxidized, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, moist; loam; massive; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.
    C2—86 to 140 centimeters (33.9 to 55.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) oxidized, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary.
    Cr—140 to 152 centimeters (55.1 to 59.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist; unweathered bedrock; fragments. Cr horizon of this pedon consists of unweathered sandstone fragments and bedrock.