IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Canyon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1980NE033001
  • User Pedon ID: S1980NE033001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0118
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48412
  • 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: 41.4039444
  • Std. Longitude: -103.3487749
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17N
  • Range: 52W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 240 meters E and 1073 meters N of SW corner
  • Map Unit: 5155—Canyon-Bayard complex, 6 to 20 percent slopes
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE033—Cheyenne
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE033—Cheyenne, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41103-D3—Potter 2 NE, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. C. Loerch and G. L. McCoy
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic, shallow Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Canyon
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic, shallow Ustic Torriorthents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/17/2018
  • 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: residuum weathered from calcareous sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • 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: 2
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    strongly coherent

    18 - 64

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

    ochric epipedon

    paralithic contact

    0—8

    36—60

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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

    11

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    1414.3

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    315

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; very fine sandy loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00600. Sandstone fragments are calcareous.; many fine roots throughout
    AC—8 to 18 centimeters (3.1 to 7.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; loam; moderate medium and coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P00601. Sandstone fragments are calcareous.; common fine roots throughout
    C—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); 50 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior and 50 percent light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; loam; massive; soft, friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume 250-425-600 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P00602. Sandstone fragments are calcareous.; few fine roots throughout
    Cr—36 to 60 centimeters (14.2 to 23.6 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior, very pale brown (10YR 8/3) interior, moist; unweathered bedrock; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Sandstone bedrock is calcareous and fine grained.