IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kuma
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989NE049007
  • User Pedon ID: S1989NE049007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0175
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62108
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 41.2039806
  • Std. Longitude: -102.1972500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 1100 feet south and 2300 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Deuel County, NE.
  • Map Unit: 1618—Keith loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE049—Deuel
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE049—Deuel County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41102-B2—Big Springs NW, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Wilson, A.T. Labenz, and R. Kowalski.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kuma
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/9/2016
  • 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: rise
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 4
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    secondary carbonates

    free carbonates

    0—69

    25—75

    53—188

    76—119

    76—188

    —69—

    —50—

    —135—

    —43—

    —112—
    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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    1133

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P01185
    A—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P01186
    Bt—25 to 53 centimeters (9.8 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P01187
    Btb1—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P01188
    Btb2—69 to 76 centimeters (27.2 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P01189
    Bkb—76 to 119 centimeters (29.9 to 46.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P01190
    Cb—119 to 188 centimeters (46.9 to 74.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; very friable; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 90P01191