IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Valentine
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 93NE061002
  • User Pedon ID: 93NE061002
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 1
  • Transect Stop Number - 7
  • Transect Interval - 20.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0109
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66297
  • Print Date: 5/30/2024

    • 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: 40.3050003
  • Std. Longitude: -98.9616699
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 15W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 2080 feet E and 1390 feet S of NW corner
  • Map Unit: 2609—Hersh-Valentine complex, 6 to 11 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE061—Franklin
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE061—Franklin County, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Zink & R. Rayer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mixed, mesic Typic Ustipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Valentine
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/26/2013
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Valentine
  • Taxonomic Class - Mixed, nonacid, mesic Typic Ustipsamments
  • Classificaton Date - 12/7/1993
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian sands
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/7/1993 (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: wind erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—15

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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

    4

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed sand; 92 percent sand; 3 percent clay; single grain; loose, very friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00766; moist when described;
    AC—15 to 33 centimeters (5.9 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed loamy fine sand; 89 percent sand; 7 percent clay; single grain; loose, very friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00767; moist when described;
    C—33 to 152 centimeters (13.0 to 59.8 inches); fine sand; 91 percent sand; 5 percent clay; single grain; loose, very friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 94P00768; moist when described;. C Horizon has thin lenses of LFS and FSL.