IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kuma
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985NE033051
  • User Pedon ID: S1985NE033051
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0844
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57110
  • 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: 41.3369806
  • Std. Longitude: -103.0200556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 50W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 2300 feet west and 275 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Cheyenne County, NE.
  • Map Unit: 1650—Kuma loam, 0 to 1 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-C1—Mud Springs SE, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LA Ragon, GS Borchers, JR Culver, CR Derickson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 51
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kuma
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 17 to 67 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/10/2016
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 23
  • 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 Horizon Lab Results - 1
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID Data Collector Total Clay CaCO3 Clay Total Silt Fine Silt Co. Silt Total Sand Total Sand Method VC Sand Co. Sand Med. Sand Fine Sand VF Sand VF Sand Method Texture Class - Field Lab Rubbed Fiber Unrubbed Fiber pH H2O
    cm cm % % % % % % % % % % % % %

    Ap

    0

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    24

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 2
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID pH CaCl2 pH NaF pH Ox Delta pH LL PL PI Atter. Samp. Cond. COLE Pot. Acidity Ca + Mg - Meh 2 K Ca + Mg - Sat. Paste KCl Extract. Acidity Base Sat. - Meh 2 CEC-7 CEC-8.2
    cm cm % % % cm/cm meq/100g cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg mmol(+)/l cmol(+)/kg % cmol(+)/kg cmol(+)/kg

    Ap

    0

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    Pedon Horizon Lab Results - 3
    Horizon Top Depth Bottom Depth Sample ID ECEC Phosphate P NO3-N EC EC Method EC 1:5 by volume CaCO3 Equiv. Equiv. Gypsum Na SAR Gypsum Req. Humic Color Fulvic Color Humic + Fulvic Color Al PI Pyro. Hue PyrO. Value Pyro. Chroma
    cm cm cmol(+)/kg mg/kg mg/kg dS/m dS/m % % mmol(+)/l % L-pcu/g L-pcu/g L-pcu/g %

    Ap

    0

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    free carbonates

    secondary carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—62

    17—81

    36—188

    62—230

    81—107

    188—230

    —62—

    —64—

    —152—

    —168—

    —26—

    —42—
    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

    0

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    1317

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    135

    42

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    252145

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    Ap—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, moist; loam; 20 percent sand; 56 percent silt; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; common fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04553
    Bt—17 to 36 centimeters (6.7 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; loam; 28 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; common fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04554
    Btb1—36 to 62 centimeters (14.2 to 24.4 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, black (10YR 2/1) exterior and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, moist; loam; 26 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; few fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04555
    Btb2—62 to 81 centimeters (24.4 to 31.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; few fine roots throughout; 11 percent coarse cylindrical insect casts; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04556. common coarse insects casts
    Bkb—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; few fine roots throughout; threadlike lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04557. effervescence is continuous
    Cb1—107 to 142 centimeters (42.1 to 55.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; 19 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; soft, very friable; few fine roots throughout; 11 percent very coarse spherical masses of dark accumulation; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04558. common very coarse soft dark masses; effervescence is continuous
    Cb2—142 to 188 centimeters (55.9 to 74.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) crushed, pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, moist; loam; 15 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04559. effervescence is continuous
    2C—188 to 216 centimeters (74.0 to 85.0 inches); 70 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed and 30 percent very pale brown (10YR 8/3) crushed, 70 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed and 30 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/4) crushed, moist; sandy clay loam; 8 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04560. effervescence is continuous
    2Cr—216 to 226 centimeters (85.0 to 89.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior sandy loam, weathered bedrock; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 85P04561. effervescence is continuous