IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rosebud
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980NE007001
  • User Pedon ID: S1980NE007001
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-benchmark lab pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0117
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48411
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 41.4041672
  • Std. Longitude: -103.7955551
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 56W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 202 meters E and 412 meters S of NE corner
  • Map Unit: 1726—Rosebud loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE007—Banner
  • MLRA: 67A—Central High Plains, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE007—Banner County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41103-D7—Kimball 2 NE, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: N. P. Helzer, J. C. Loerch, and G. L. McCoy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rosebud
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 18 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/2018
  • 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

  • Parent Material: loess derived from mixed-calcareous and/or residuum weathered from calcareous sandstone
  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 52
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    very strongly coherent

    97 - 117

    - 20 -

    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    free carbonates

    secondary carbonates

    lithic contact

    0—51

    18—43

    43—97

    43—97

    97—117

    —51—

    —25—

    —54—

    —54—

    —20—
    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

    2

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    1531.6

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    45

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; loam; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00593
    Bt1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00594. Fragments are granitic.
    Bt2—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P00595
    Bk1—43 to 51 centimeters (16.9 to 20.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior, moist; clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 1 percent fine threadlike lime masses; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00596. few fine soft masses of lime concentrations
    Bk2—51 to 61 centimeters (20.1 to 24.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, moist; clay loam; weak very coarse platy, and weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very friable; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00597. Sandstone fragments are calcareous.
    Bk3—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00598. Sandstone fragments are calcareous.
    Bk4—81 to 97 centimeters (31.9 to 38.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, moist; loam; massive; soft, very friable; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter metamorphic, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.4, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P00599. Fragments are granitic.
    Cr—97 to 117 centimeters (38.2 to 46.1 inches); white (10YR 8/1) interior, very pale brown (10YR 8/3) interior, moist; unweathered bedrock; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Sandstone bedrock is calcareous and fine grained.