IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rosebud
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957NE105006
  • User Pedon ID: S1957NE105006
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-benchmark lab pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2302
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36999
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 41.1207500
  • Std. Longitude: -103.3962194
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 53W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 1883 feet east and 100 feet north of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: About 8 miles south and 5.5 miles east of Dix, Nebraska.
  • Map Unit: 6041—Tassel-Blanche sandy loams, 3 to 9 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-A4—Potter SW, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ross D. Greenawalt and Bill McKinzie
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rosebud
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/21/2018
  • 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

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/7/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 24
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    secondary carbonates

    paralithic contact

    0—38

    0—66

    18—38

    66—76

    —38—

    —66—

    —20—

    —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

    3

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    1420.4

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A18051
    Bk—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; violent effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A18052. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1609960; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1609960
    C—38 to 66 centimeters (15.0 to 26.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A18053
    Cr—66 to 76 centimeters (26.0 to 29.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A18054