IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vetal
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 12NE1572001
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NE1572001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 12NE1572001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8268
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55247
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 41.7229472
  • Std. Longitude: -103.8779806
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20
  • Range: 57 W
  • Section: 10
  • Map Unit: 1308—Bayard very fine sandy loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE157—Scotts Bluff
  • MLRA: 67A—Central High Plains, Northern Part
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-GAR—Garden City, Kansas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE157—Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41103-F8—Murray Lake, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. Elg, D. Vyain, T. White
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2001
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Vetal
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/30/2012
  • Classifier - D. Vyain
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: fan
  • Microfeature: open depression
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/30/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: A. Elg, D. Vyain, T. White
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AGSM

    ANHA

    ANNE

    ARFI2

    ARFR4

    CALO

    OPPO

    Agropyron smithii

    Andropogon hallii

    Antennaria neglecta

    Artemisia filifolia

    Artemisia frigida

    Calamovilfa longifolia

    Opuntia polyacantha

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    sand bluestem

    field pussytoes

    sand sagebrush

    prairie sagewort

    prairie sandreed

    plains pricklypear

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

    mollic epipedon

    0—200

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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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    1369

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    270

    406

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    136

    8.8

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    A1—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots throughout and common medium roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N04614; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—7 to 18 centimeters (2.8 to 7.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N04615; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—18 to 47 centimeters (7.1 to 18.5 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N04616; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—47 to 119 centimeters (18.5 to 46.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine carbonate nodules; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N04617; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    C—119 to 200 centimeters (46.9 to 78.7 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few very fine roots throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 12N04618; dry when described; observed in pit, small