IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Burchard
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994NE159001
  • User Pedon ID: 94NE159001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0555
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66731
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 40.8452797
  • Std. Longitude: -96.9483337
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: SW NW
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE159—Seward
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE159—Seward County, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Group 1
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Burchard
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Classificaton Date - 5/25/1994
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/25/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—11

    11—46

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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

    9

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    424

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    270

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    Ap1—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P03893
    Ap2—4 to 11 centimeters (1.6 to 4.3 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 0.5 medium roots throughout; tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P03893
    Bt1—11 to 18 centimeters (4.3 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and brown (10YR 4/3) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 0.5 coarse roots throughout; tubular pores; clay films; 1 percent by volume mixed fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P03894
    Bt2—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay loam; moderate coarse angular blocky parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; tubular pores; clay films; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P03894
    Bt3—28 to 36 centimeters (11.0 to 14.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse angular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 very fine roots between peds; tubular pores; clay films; 3 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) iron-manganese masses and 5 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) iron-manganese masses; fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    Btk—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 fine roots between peds; tubular pores; 10 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) iron-manganese masses and 40 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) iron-manganese masses; carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 94P03895