IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vetal
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 12NE1572002
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NE1572002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 12NE1572002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8269
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55248
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 41.7233500
  • Std. Longitude: -103.8772833
  • 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 #: 2002
  • 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
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • 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

    ARFI2

    CALO

    HECO26

    OPPO

    PASM

    Artemisia filifolia

    Calamovilfa longifolia

    Hesperostipa comata

    Opuntia polyacantha

    Pascopyrum smithii

    sand sagebrush

    prairie sandreed

    needle and thread

    plains pricklypear

    western wheatgrass

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

    mollic epipedon

    0—110

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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

    4

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    1370

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    195

    406

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    136

    8.8

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 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; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N04619; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—8 to 56 centimeters (3.1 to 22.0 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 medium roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N04620; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—56 to 82 centimeters (22.0 to 32.3 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 medium roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N04621; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    C1—82 to 110 centimeters (32.3 to 43.3 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N04622; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—110 to 155 centimeters (43.3 to 61.0 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; 1 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N04623; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    C3—155 to 200 centimeters (61.0 to 78.7 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2 percent carbonate nodules; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 12N04624; dry when described; observed in pit, small