IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mitchell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005NE157003
  • User Pedon ID: S2005NE157003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0130
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17836
  • 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: 41.8105545
  • Std. Longitude: -104.0311127
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 21 North
  • Range: 58 West
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 700 feet south and 1700 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: 5834—Mitchell silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE157—Scotts Bluff
  • MLRA: 67A—Central High Plains, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE157—Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41104-G1—Robb Draw, Wyoming

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dave Vyain
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mitchell
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/25/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - second edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-silty colluvium derived from calcareous siltstone
  • Landscape: basin
  • Landform: valley flat
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/25/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—48

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    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

    0.5

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    1277

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    Ap—0 to 33 centimeters (0.0 to 13.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00387; moist when described; observed in trench
    A—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00388; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bk1—48 to 82 centimeters (18.9 to 32.3 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 medium tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 6 percent distinct organic stains on vertical faces of peds; 6 percent fine spherical carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00389; moist when described; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 326340; continuous - phpvsfiid 326340
    Bk2—82 to 106 centimeters (32.3 to 41.7 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine tubular pores; 3 percent distinct organic stains on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron lining pores; 3 percent fine spherical carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00390; moist when described; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 326341; continuous - phpvsfiid 326341
    Bk3—106 to 138 centimeters (41.7 to 54.3 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent distinct organic stains on vertical faces of peds; carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00391; moist when described; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 326342; continuous - phpvsfiid 326342
    Bk4—138 to 203 centimeters (54.3 to 79.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; carbonate, finely disseminated in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 06N00392; moist when described; observed in trench