IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Valentine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1977NE149004
  • User Pedon ID: S1977NE149004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1977NE149004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2194
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36346
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 42.3383217
  • Std. Longitude: -99.4762497
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 19W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 600 feet S and 600 feet E of center
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE149—Rock
  • MLRA: 65—Nebraska Sand Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE149—Rock County, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MD, JB, RZ
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Typic Ustipsamments
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Valentine
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, mesic Typic Ustipsamments
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/14/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: aeolian sands
  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/14/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ARTEM

    BOGR2

    SCSC

    Artemisia

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Schizachyrium scoparium

    sagebrush

    blue grama

    little bluestem

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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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    45

    580

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; fine sand; weak fine granular parts to single grain; loose; 21.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A17265
    Ac—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; fine sand; single grain; loose; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, bromthymol blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A17266
    C—23 to 153 centimeters (9.1 to 60.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; fine sand; single grain; loose; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 40A17267