IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arvada
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1981NE165002
  • User Pedon ID: S1981NE165002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0461
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49305
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 42.9294434
  • Std. Longitude: -103.5141678
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 34N
  • Range: 53W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 2500 feet S and 300 feet W of the center
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE165—Sioux
  • MLRA: 60A—Pierre Shale Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE165—Sioux County, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mark Willoughby and Jim Culver
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Natrustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Arvada
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arvada-Like
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Ustollic Natrargid
  • Classificaton Date - 4/29/1981
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from clay shale
  • Landform: terrace
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/29/1981 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
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    A2—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, cresol red; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bt2—3 to 36 centimeters (1.2 to 14.2 inches); olive (5Y 4/3), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; clay; moderate medium columnar parts to moderate fine blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.5, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P02644
    B3casa—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); olive (5Y 4/3), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dry; clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, cresol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P02645
    C1casa—58 to 152 centimeters (22.8 to 59.8 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), pale olive (5Y 6/3), dry; clay; massive; very hard, firm; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, cresol red.