IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hersh
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1987NE175001A
  • User Pedon ID: 87NE175001A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0438
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59733
  • Print Date: 5/31/2024

    • 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: 41.7083321
  • Std. Longitude: -98.8125000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20N
  • Range: 13W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 75 feet W and 0.4 mile S of the NE corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE175—Valley
  • MLRA: 65—Nebraska Sand Hills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Richard Zink
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, nonacid, mesic Typic Ustorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hersh
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hersh
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, nonacid, mesic Typic Ustorthe
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1987
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—14

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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

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    1Ap—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 0.5 medium roots and 2.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02283. few medium roots; common fine roots
    1Ad—14 to 19 centimeters (5.5 to 7.5 inches); 65 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and 35 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior fine sandy loam; weak platy structure; friable; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P02284. common fine roots
    1AC—19 to 35 centimeters (7.5 to 13.8 inches); 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) interior fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 2.5 fine roots; 0.5 fine tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # 87P02285. common fine roots