IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Rosebud
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985NE033055
  • User Pedon ID: S1985NE033055
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-benchmark lab pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0848
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57114
  • 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: 41.1360556
  • Std. Longitude: -103.3378722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 53W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 425 feet N and 75 feet W of the SE corner
  • Location Description: Cheyenne County, NE.
  • Map Unit: 1726—Rosebud loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE033—Cheyenne
  • MLRA: 67A—Central High Plains, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE033—Cheyenne, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41103-B3—Potter, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: LG Ragon, GA Borchers, JR Culver, NP Helzer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 55
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rosebud
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 10 to 39 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/2018
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess derived from mixed-calcareous and/or unconsolidated sediments derived from mixed-calcareous
  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Shape Down: undulating
  • 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: 55
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    76 - 180

    - 102 -

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

    free carbonates

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    paralithic contact

    0—76

    0—22

    10—39

    39—76

    76—180

    —76—

    —22—

    —29—

    —37—

    —102—
    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

    2

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    —

    1408.2

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    225

    45

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    257830

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    1Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04579; dry when described;. 2% limy sandstone pebbles.; common fine roots throughout
    1Bt1—10 to 22 centimeters (3.9 to 8.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed and 50 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, moist; clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04580; dry when described;. 2% lime sandstone pebbles.; few fine roots throughout
    1Bt2—22 to 39 centimeters (8.7 to 15.4 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; loam; 25 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04581; moist when described;. 5% limy sandstone pebbles.; few fine roots throughout
    1Bk1—39 to 52 centimeters (15.4 to 20.5 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, moist; loam; 24 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04582; dry when described;. 5% limy sandstone pebbles. Possible Btk.; few fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Bk2—52 to 76 centimeters (20.5 to 29.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, moist; loam; 22 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 8 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04583; dry when described;. 8% limy sandstone pebbles.; few fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    2Cr1—76 to 128 centimeters (29.9 to 50.4 inches); white (10YR 8/1) crushed, light gray (10YR 7/2) crushed, moist; weathered bedrock; massive; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 85P04584; dry when described;. Some roots in cleavages and cracks.; effervescence is continuous
    2Cr2—128 to 180 centimeters (50.4 to 70.9 inches); white (10YR 8/1) crushed, light gray (2.5Y 7/2) crushed, moist; weathered bedrock; massive; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 85P04585; moist when described;. effervescence is continuous