IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Tassel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989NE161002
  • User Pedon ID: 89NE161002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0548
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61650
  • 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: 42.9650002
  • Std. Longitude: -102.4519424
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35N
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 1400 feet E and 1800 feet N of SW corner
  • Location Description: Sheridan County, NE.
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE161—Sheridan
  • MLRA: 64—Mixed Sandy and Silty Tableland and Badlands

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Phil Young and Gary McCoy.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Tassel
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • 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 - 11/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1989 (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

    13

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    1169

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    90

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03050
    AC—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; very fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03051
    C—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; loamy very fine sand; single grain; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P03052
    Cr—43 to 152 centimeters (16.9 to 59.8 inches);, very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dry; fragments; strong effervescence. sandstone; no sample