IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bridget
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1953NE157001
  • User Pedon ID: S1953NE157001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1953NE157001
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-benchmark lab pedonsmlra72-Ulysses labOLD
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2323
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37020
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 41.8320806
  • Std. Longitude: -103.9854364
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 58W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 0.3 mile north of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: 1362—Bridget very fine sandy loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE157—Scotts Bluff
  • MLRA: 67A—Central High Plains, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE157—Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41103-G8—Stegall, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: John Elder
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bridget
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/7/2013
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian deposits over loess
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: rise
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/30/1953 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 28
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    TRITI

    Triticum

    wheat

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    free carbonates

    cambic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—38

    38—152

    38—53

    38—53

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    —114—

    —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

    2

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    1295.4

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    45

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to thick platy parts to weak fine granular structure; hard, friable; many roots; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A18217
    Bw1—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; moderate very coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine granular structure; hard, friable; many roots; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; noneffervescent; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A18218
    Bw2—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine granular structure; hard, friable; many roots; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A18219
    Bk—38 to 53 centimeters (15.0 to 20.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; many fine roots; carbonate coats on surfaces along pores and carbonate coats on surfaces along root channels; fragments; violent effervescence; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A18220
    C1—53 to 69 centimeters (20.9 to 27.2 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; carbonate coats on surfaces along pores and carbonate coats on surfaces along root channels; fragments; violent effervescence; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A18221
    C2—69 to 86 centimeters (27.2 to 33.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable; few fine roots; many very fine pores; fragments; violent effervescence; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A18222
    C3—86 to 109 centimeters (33.9 to 42.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; structureless massive; soft, very friable; few fine roots; many very fine pores; fragments; violent effervescence; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A18223
    C4—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; structureless massive; soft, very friable; few fine roots; many very fine pores; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 40A18224. Continues downward to an undetermined depth where the loess rests on unweathered Brule formation.