IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tassel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985NE165023
  • User Pedon ID: 85NE165023
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0105
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57910
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 42.7033348
  • Std. Longitude: -103.8574982
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32N
  • Range: 56W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 2200 feet west and 1700 feet N of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: Sioux County, Nebraska.
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE165—Sioux
  • MLRA: 64—Mixed Sandy and Silty Tableland and Badlands

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mark Willoughby and Jeff Green
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic, shallow Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 23
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tassel
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Tassel
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed (calcareous), mesic, shallow Ustic To
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    1A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; loamy very fine sand; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P00661
    1AC—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; loamy very fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P00662
    1C—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, dry; loamy very fine sand; massive; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P00663. Common fine fragments of sandstone.
    1Cr—38 to 152 centimeters (15.0 to 59.8 inches);, light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, dry; weathered bedrock; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n.