IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Canyon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990NE029003
  • User Pedon ID: S1990NE029003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0788
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62721
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 40.6099222
  • Std. Longitude: -101.9791333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 41W
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 300 feet S and 2400 feet E of the NW corner
  • Map Unit: 1740—Rosebud-Canyon loams, 3 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE029—Chase
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE029—Chase County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40101-E8—Lamar, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. Ragon and B. Grossman.
  • 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 #: 3
  • 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 - 6/16/2018
  • 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: colluvium derived from calcareous sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 19
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    28 - 226

    - 198 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    paralithic contact

    0—13

    28—226

    —13—

    —198—
    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

    5

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    1069.8

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    90

    46

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; fine granular structure; soft, very friable; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P04610. 22% clay; by field calcimeter estimate—16% CaCO3 equivalent; many very fine and fine roots
    C—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loam; massive; soft, very friable; 5.5 very fine and fine roots; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P04611. by field calcimeter estimate—12% CaCO3 equivalent; 24% clay; many very fine and fine roots
    C/Cr—28 to 61 centimeters (11.0 to 24.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; extremely channery sandy loam; very hard, very firm; 2.5 very fine roots; 11 percent carbonate masses; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P04612. sampled for "soft rock" test; by field calcimeter estimate—21% CaCO3 equivalent; common soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common very fine roots
    Cr1—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; extremely flaggy sandy loam; extremely firm*; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P04613. sampled for "soft rock" test; by field calcimeter estimate—21% CaCO3 equivalent
    Cr2—91 to 130 centimeters (35.8 to 51.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; extremely flaggy sandy loam; extremely firm*; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 50 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1, pH meter; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P04614. sampled for "soft rock" test; by field calcimeter estimate—27% CaCO3 equivalent
    Cr3—130 to 191 centimeters (51.2 to 75.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist; extremely flaggy sandy loam; extremely firm*; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P04615. sampled for "soft rock" test
    Cr4—191 to 226 centimeters (75.2 to 89.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; extremely flaggy sandy loam; extremely firm*; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments and 60 percent by volume 150-265-380 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P04616
    2C1—226 to 284 centimeters (89.0 to 111.8 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; gravelly loam; massive; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P04617
    2C2—284 to 325 centimeters (111.8 to 128.0 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; gravelly loam; massive; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P04618
    2C3—325 to 345 centimeters (128.0 to 135.8 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; gravelly loam; massive; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 90P04619