IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): DIX
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978NE123015
  • User Pedon ID: S1978NE123015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0072
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46256
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 41.8580322
  • Std. Longitude: -103.3610916
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 52W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 370 feet south and 200 feet east of the NW corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE123—Morrill
  • MLRA: 64—Mixed Sandy and Silty Tableland and Badlands
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE123—Morrill County, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Norman P. Helzer and J. Cameron Loerch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Ustic Torripsamments
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - DIX
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/2006
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dix
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Torriorthentic Haplus
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/13/1978
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landform: remnant of high stream terrace
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/13/1978 (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

    15

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    1315

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    180

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00360
    C1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; gravelly sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; 1 percent by volume 250-?-600 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P00361
    C2—41 to 152 centimeters (16.1 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; extremely gravelly sand; single grain; loose, loose; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0. Lab sample # 79P00362