IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Johnstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009NE0071117
  • User Pedon ID: S2009NE0071117
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2009NE0071117
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0095
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24889
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 41.4816666
  • Std. Longitude: -104.0097198
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18
  • Range: 58W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: SE4
  • Location Description: This site is located approximately 1260' west and 350' north of the southeast corner of Section 33-18-58W.
  • Map Unit: 1820—Satanta-Altvan complex, 3 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE007—Banner
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE007—Banner County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41104-D1—Albin, Wyoming

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: N Roth
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Johnstown
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/2/2009
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy loess derived from igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock over sandy and gravelly alluvium derived from igneous and metamorphic rock
  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: swale
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent nonflat subrounded indurated 2- to 75-millimeter mixed,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/2/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - culturally induced barren
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AGCR

    MEOF

    Agropyron cristatum

    Melilotus officinalis

    crested wheatgrass

    sweetclover

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    abrupt textural change

    0—86

    36—102

    102—

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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

    1

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    1613

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    0

    457

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    115

    8.5

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    Albin, Wyoming HPRCC - Station # 480080

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; sandy loam; 18 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular and 4.0 very fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-15-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N00326; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    A2—10 to 36 centimeters (3.9 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) broken face, moist; loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-15-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 10N00327; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt1—36 to 69 centimeters (14.2 to 27.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; loam; 26 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine tubular and 10.0 fine tubular pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-15-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N00328; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt2—69 to 86 centimeters (27.2 to 33.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; loam; 28 percent clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 medium tubular and 5.0 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-15-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N00329; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    Bt3—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, moist; loam; 20 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 8.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-25-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 10N00330; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry
    2C—102 to 203 centimeters (40.2 to 79.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face, strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face, moist; very gravelly loamy coarse sand; 10 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderate excavation difficulty; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 75-120-250 millimeter mixed fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-25-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 10N00331; dry when described; observed in pit, large or quarry