IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Boyd
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976NE015005
  • User Pedon ID: S1976NE015005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2064
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36222
  • 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: 42.7916565
  • Std. Longitude: -98.4359360
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 33N
  • Range: 10W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 520 feet east and 100 feet south of the center
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE015—Boyd
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE015—Boyd County, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Dixon, O. Indra and J. Brubacher.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Vertic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Boyd
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Vertic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/30/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/30/1976 (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
    • 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
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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay; moderate fine and medium granular structure; hard, friable; 0.5 medium roots and 21.0 fine roots; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A16413
    B1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silty clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine and medium granular structure; hard, friable; 3.0 very fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A16414
    B2—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 10 percent pressure faces; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions and 21 percent medium carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A16415
    C1—51 to 81 centimeters (20.1 to 31.9 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), olive (5Y 4/3), moist; clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*; 0.5 very fine roots; 75 percent pressure faces; 3 percent coarse carbonate masses between peds; 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A16416
    Cr—81 to 152 centimeters (31.9 to 59.8 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3), olive (5Y 4/4), moist; clay; massive parts to moderate medium and coarse granular; extremely hard, extremely firm*; 1 percent gypsum crystals, unspecified throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A16417. Strong effervescence except on segregated ped faces.