IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Valent
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989NE057039
  • User Pedon ID: 89NE057039
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0757
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61856
  • 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: 40.2327766
  • Std. Longitude: -101.5383301
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 37W
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet S and 2300 feet W of the NE corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE057—Dundy
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D.R. Hoover and M.K. Babcock.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Ustic Torripsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 39
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Valent
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Valentine
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, mesic Typic Ustipsamment
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: dune
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    10

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    180

    43

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; sand; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P04380
    AC—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; sand; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P04381
    C1—36 to 66 centimeters (14.2 to 26.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; sand; single grain; slightly hard, loose; fragments; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P04382
    C2—66 to 97 centimeters (26.0 to 38.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; sand; single grain; slightly hard, loose; fragments; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P04383
    C3—97 to 127 centimeters (38.2 to 50.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; sand; single grain; slightly hard, loose; fragments; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P04384
    C4—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; sand; single grain; slightly hard, loose; fragments. Lab sample # 89P04385