IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rosebud
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957NE105005
  • User Pedon ID: S1957NE105005
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-benchmark lab pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2301
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36998
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 41.1202774
  • Std. Longitude: -103.6316681
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 55W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 720 feet east and 135 feet north of south 1/4 corner
  • Location Description: About 8 miles south and 1.5 miles east of Kimball, Nebraska.
  • Map Unit: 1739—Rosebud-Canyon loams, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE105—Kimball
  • MLRA: 67A—Central High Plains, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE105—Kimball County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41103-A6—Kimball SW, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ross D. Greenawalt and Bill McKinzie
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rosebud
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 10 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/2018
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over calcareous loamy residuum
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/7/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 22
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • 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

    free carbonates

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithic contact

    0—38

    10—76

    10—28

    28—38

    48—76

    76—86

    —38—

    —66—

    —18—

    —10—

    —28—

    —10—
    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

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A18044
    Bt—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; clay films on vertical faces of peds and clay films on horizontal faces of peds; 21 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A18045. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1609946; continuous - phpvsfiid 1609945; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1609946; continuous - phpvsfiid 1609945
    Bk—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A18046
    C1—38 to 48 centimeters (15.0 to 18.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A18047
    2C2—48 to 58 centimeters (18.9 to 22.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; sandy loam; massive; very friable; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A18048
    2C3—58 to 76 centimeters (22.8 to 29.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), moist; gravelly sandy loam; massive; fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A18049
    R—76 to 86 centimeters (29.9 to 33.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A18050