IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Brocksburg
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1975NE103001
  • User Pedon ID: S1975NE103001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2066
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36224
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 42.7952614
  • Std. Longitude: -99.6848679
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 33N
  • Range: 20W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 1300 feet E and 65 feet S of the NW corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE103—Keya Paha
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE103—Keya Paha County, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Merritt Plantz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Brocksburg
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 53 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1975
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sand and gravel of pleistocene age
  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    0.6

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    A—0 to 38 centimeters (0.0 to 15.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, phenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A16423
    B21t—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, phenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A16424
    B22t—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, phenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A16425
    B3—69 to 76 centimeters (27.2 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, phenol red; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A16426
    C2—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; Error; single grain; loose; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, phenol red. Lab sample # 40A16427