IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Duroc
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985NE033052
  • User Pedon ID: S1985NE033052
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-SDJR comp peds
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0845
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57111
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 41.3647232
  • Std. Longitude: -102.8952789
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 49W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 174 meters south and 67 meters east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Cheyenne County, NE.
  • Map Unit: 5942—Duroc 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: 41102-C8—Gurley, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LG Ragon, GA Borchers, JR Culver, WJ Vanek
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 52
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Duroc
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/9/2014
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Duroc
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Pachic Haplustoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: playa or alluvial flat
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • 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)
  • Data Collector: LG Ragon, GA Borchers, JR Culver, WJ Vanek
  • Air Photo ID: 15
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    free carbonates

    cambic horizon

    0—104

    79—247

    104—136

    —104—

    —168—

    —32—
    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

    —

    —

    1281.7

    —

    225

    45

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    252145

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    Ap—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, black (10YR 2/1) crushed, moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; moderate permeability; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P4562. common fine roots
    A—16 to 47 centimeters (6.3 to 18.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, black (10YR 2/1) exterior and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P4563. common fine roots
    Bw1—47 to 79 centimeters (18.5 to 31.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P4564. few fine roots
    Bw2—79 to 104 centimeters (31.1 to 40.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine roots; 11 percent threadlike lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P4565. common soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    BC—104 to 136 centimeters (40.9 to 53.5 inches); 85 percent brown (10YR 5/3) crushed and 15 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, 85 percent brown (10YR 4/3) crushed and 15 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable; moderate permeability; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent threadlike lime masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P4566. few soft masses of lime concentrations; few fine roots; effervescence is continuous
    C1—136 to 215 centimeters (53.5 to 84.6 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, moist; very fine sandy loam; 16 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; soft, very friable; moderately rapid permeability; 11 percent very coarse spherical masses of dark accumulation; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P4567. common very coarse soft dark masses concentrations; effervescence is continuous
    2C2—215 to 247 centimeters (84.6 to 97.2 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4) crushed, light brown (7.5YR 6/4) crushed, moist; sandy loam; 12 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable; moderately rapid permeability; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 85P4568. effervescence is continuous