IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Vetal
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 12NE1572003
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NE1572003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 12NE1572003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8270
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55249
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024

    • 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: 41.7239750
  • Std. Longitude: -103.8773889
  • 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 #: 2003
  • 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: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • 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

    ARFI2

    BRTE

    CALO

    OPPO

    Agropyron smithii

    Andropogon hallii

    Artemisia filifolia

    Bromus tectorum

    Calamovilfa longifolia

    Opuntia polyacantha

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    sand bluestem

    sand sagebrush

    cheatgrass

    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—122

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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

    8

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    1372

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    190

    406

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    136

    8.8

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; fine sandy loam; weak medium 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 # 12N04625; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—13 to 52 centimeters (5.1 to 20.5 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 12N04626; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—52 to 75 centimeters (20.5 to 29.5 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; very fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N04627; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—75 to 122 centimeters (29.5 to 48.0 inches);, 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and 50 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; few very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; very fine carbonate concretions; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N04628; dry when described; observed in pit, small. The CaCO3 listed for the Bw3 horizon was listed on the 232 as "very fine, CaCO3 coats on faces of sand grains". TDW, 08/28/12
    C1—122 to 161 centimeters (48.0 to 63.4 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; very 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 # 12N04629; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    C2—161 to 200 centimeters (63.4 to 78.7 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 12N04630; dry when described; observed in pit, small