IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Meadin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1969NE089002
  • User Pedon ID: S1969NE089002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1969NE089002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2141
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36296
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024
  • 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: 42.5366554
  • Std. Longitude: -98.5989990
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30N
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 375 feet south and 20 feet west of the east quarter corner
  • Location Description: About 1 miles east and 5 miles north of O'Neill, Nebraska.
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE089—Holt
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE089—Holt County, Nebraska
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert H. Jordan, Ross E. Greenwalt, Orville Indra.
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Meadin
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landform: outwash plain
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/1969 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BOGR2

    CIRSI

    PACA6

    RATIB

    SPCR

    VERBE

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Cirsium

    Panicum capillare

    Ratibida

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    Verbena

    blue grama

    thistle

    witchgrass

    prairie coneflower

    sand dropseed

    vervain

    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

    6

    608

    0

    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A16932
    A12—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A16933
    AC—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A16934
    IIC1—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dry; loamy coarse sand; weak medium subangular blocky parts to single grain; loose; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A16935
    IIC2—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; Error; single grain; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A16936