IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aridic Haplustoll
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 12NE1572005
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NE1572005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 12NE1572005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 12N8272
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55251
  • Print Date: 11/28/2024

    • 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: 41.7250389
  • Std. Longitude: -103.8775667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20
  • Range: 57 W
  • Section: 10
  • Map Unit: 1303—Bayard fine sandy loam, 9 to 20 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
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Aridic Haplustoll
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - family
  • PSC - 25 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/31/2012
  • 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: pediment
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent siltstone, unspecified at 67cm with <10
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/30/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: A. Elg, D. Vyain
  • 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

    BOGR2

    CAFI

    CALO

    HECO26

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Carex filifolia

    Calamovilfa longifolia

    Hesperostipa comata

    blue grama

    threadleaf sedge

    prairie sandreed

    needle and thread

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    68 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—45

    68—

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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

    10

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    1382

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    170

    406

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    136

    8.8

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    A—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; many very fine roots throughout and many fine roots throughout and common coarse roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A—7 to 18 centimeters (2.8 to 7.1 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    AC—18 to 45 centimeters (7.1 to 17.7 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; common very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 20-30-76 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N04641; dry when described; observed in pit, small. The AC horizon is listed as Having "CaCO3 coats on rocks" in the original 232. TDW, 08/28/12
    C—45 to 68 centimeters (17.7 to 26.8 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; massive; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume nonflat angular very strongly coherent cemented 20-30-76 millimeter siltstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 12N04642; dry when described; observed in pit, small. The C horizon is listed as Having "CaCO3 coats on rocks" in the original 232. TDW, 08/28/12
    C—68 centimeters (26.8 inches); bedrock; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.