IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Buffington
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006NE157111
  • User Pedon ID: S2006NE157111
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0085
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19044
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 41.8434677
  • Std. Longitude: -104.0521851
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22 North
  • Range: 58 West
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 600 feet north and 140 feet east of the southwest corner
  • 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: Fine, mixed, calcareous, mesic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 111
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Buffington
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, calcareous, mesic Ustic Torriorthents
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/24/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent slight weathered shale, clayey at 234cm with <10
  • Geology: Chadron formation of the White River group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/24/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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

    1.5

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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium platy parts to weak medium granular structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N00536; slightly moist when described; observed in trench
    Ap2—5 to 25 centimeters (2.0 to 9.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; slow permeability; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine irregular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N00537; slightly moist when described; observed in trench
    C1—25 to 47 centimeters (9.8 to 18.5 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) rubbed, moist; stratified silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine irregular pores; 1 percent fine distinct spherical carbonate nodules infused into matrix along faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-3-5 millimeter granite fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N00538; slightly moist when described; observed in trench
    2C2—47 to 83 centimeters (18.5 to 32.7 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) crushed, gray (10YR 5/1) rubbed, moist; silty clay; massive; hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; very slow permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent medium distinct irregular manganese masses in matrix; 1 percent fine distinct spherical moderately coherent cemented carbonate nodules; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N00539; slightly moist when described; observed in trench
    3C3—83 to 110 centimeters (32.7 to 43.3 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) crushed, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) rubbed, moist; silty clay; massive; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; very slow permeability; 5 percent medium prominent irregular light reddish brown (5YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N00540; slightly moist when described; observed in trench
    3C4—110 to 125 centimeters (43.3 to 49.2 inches); variegated pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) crushed and light greenish gray (5GY 7/1) crushed, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) rubbed and greenish gray (5GY 6/1) rubbed, moist; silty clay; massive; very hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; very slow permeability; 15 percent medium prominent irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 25 percent medium prominent irregular manganese masses in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 07N00541; slightly moist when described; observed in trench
    4C1—125 to 135 centimeters (49.2 to 53.1 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 8/3) crushed, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) rubbed, moist; silty clay; massive; very hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; very slow permeability; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 07N00542; slightly moist when described; observed in trench
    4C2—135 to 234 centimeters (53.1 to 92.1 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 8/3) crushed, pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) rubbed, moist; silty clay; massive; very hard, extremely firm, very sticky, very plastic; very slow permeability; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 07N00543; slightly moist when described; observed in trench