IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Canyon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985NE033053
  • User Pedon ID: S1985NE033053
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0846
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57112
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 41.1775556
  • Std. Longitude: -103.2142083
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 51W
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 2200 feet E and 200 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: Cheyenne County, NE.
  • Map Unit: 5150—Canyon fine sandy loam, 6 to 30 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-B2—Point of Rocks, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: NP Helzer, GA Borchers, LG Ragon, CR Derickson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic, shallow Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 53
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Canyon
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic, shallow Ustic Torriorthents
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 0 to 28 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/17/2018
  • 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

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from mixed-calcareous
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • 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: 56
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    paralithic contact

    0—15

    28—112

    —15—

    —84—
    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

    9

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    1359.4

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    45

    45

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    257830

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; loam; 50 percent sand; 37 percent silt; 13 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 12 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04569; dry when described;. many fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    C—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) crushed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, moist; extremely channery sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 31 percent silt; 9 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 85 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter mixed fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04570; dry when described;. common fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    Cr1—28 to 40 centimeters (11.0 to 15.7 inches); white (10YR 8/1) crushed, very pale brown (10YR 8/2) crushed, moist; weathered bedrock; massive; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04571. 10% fines.; effervescence is continuous
    Cr2—40 to 112 centimeters (15.7 to 44.1 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, moist; weathered bedrock; massive; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 85P04572. Probably doesn't qualify in hardness for Cr.; effervescence is continuous