IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Keith
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 13NE013002
  • User Pedon ID: S13NE013002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 13N96723
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 74391
  • 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: 42.3374500
  • Std. Longitude: -103.2562611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 27N
  • Range: 51W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 18M North and 563M West of the Southeast corner
  • Location Description: This location is 18M North and 563M West of the Southeast corner of section 3-27N-51W.
  • Map Unit: 5943—Duroc loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE013—Box Butte
  • MLRA: 64—Mixed Sandy and Silty Tableland and Badlands
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-RAP—Rapid City, South Dakota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE013—Box Butte County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 42103-C3—Marsland SE, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. Elg and D. Vyain
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keith
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/22/2013
  • Classifier - A. Elg
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from limestone and sandstone
  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: limestone and sandstone at 160cm
  • Geology: Ogallala Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/22/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: A. Elg and D. Vyain
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    calcic horizon

    0—25

    25—43

    43—127

    —25—

    —18—

    —84—
    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

    2

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    1360

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    240

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) crushed, moist; loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 13N09615; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) crushed, moist; loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate coarse angular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; common very fine roots throughout and common fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 13N09616; observed in pit, small
    Bt—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, moist; clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; common very fine roots throughout and few fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 13N09617; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1195256; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1195256
    Bk1—43 to 69 centimeters (16.9 to 27.2 inches);, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) crushed, moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 13N09618; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—69 to 84 centimeters (27.2 to 33.1 inches);, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) crushed, moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 13N09619; observed in pit, small
    BCk—84 to 127 centimeters (33.1 to 50.0 inches);, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) crushed, moist; fine sandy loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 13N09620; observed in pit, small
    C—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches);, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) crushed, moist; loam; massive; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 15 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 13N09621; observed in pit, small