IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sansarc
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976NE015006
  • User Pedon ID: S1976NE015006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2164
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36318
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 42.7880440
  • Std. Longitude: -98.3926010
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 33N
  • Range: 9W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 1320 feet north and 1000 feet west of the southeast corner
  • 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: Clayey, montmorillonitic (calcareous), mesic, shallow Typic Ustorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sansarc
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, montmorillonitic (calcareous), mesic, shallow Typic Ustorthents
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine and medium granular structure; hard, friable; 0.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A17077
    C1—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine and fine platy structure; very hard, very firm; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 3 percent fine carbonate masses; 55 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A17078
    Cr1—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); reddish gray (5YR 5/2), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), dry; clay; massive parts to weak medium and coarse platy; extremely hard, extremely firm*; 3 percent medium carbonate masses; 80 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A17079
    Cr2—41 to 152 centimeters (16.1 to 59.8 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), pale olive (5Y 6/4), dry; weathered bedrock; massive parts to strong fine platy; extremely hard, extremely firm*; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A17080. Massive breaking to strong fine to very coarse platy shale fragments with sharp corners.