IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Keith
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NE057004
  • User Pedon ID: S1988NE057004
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-benchmark lab pedonsmlra72-Ulysses labOLDmlra72-Keith lab
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0136
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61240
  • 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: 40.3301944
  • Std. Longitude: -101.4489722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 37W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet south and 1900 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: 1620—Keith silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE057—Dundy
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE057—Dundy County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40101-C4—Wauneta SW, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Hoover
  • 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: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Keith
  • PSC - 13 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/29/2012
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keith
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: rise
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10
  • 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: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    free carbonates

    0—38

    13—38

    38—152

    38—152

    —38—

    —25—

    —114—

    —114—
    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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    1004.9

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    90

    46

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; 41 percent sand; 15 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable; moderate permeability; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P1027
    Bt1—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; 33 percent sand; 24 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P1028. Horizon has darker faces on ped surfaces
    Bt2—28 to 38 centimeters (11.0 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; 30 percent sand; 23 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P1029
    Bk1—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; 31 percent sand; 23 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; 1 percent fine and medium carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P1030. few fine and medium carbonate threads concentrations
    Bk2—58 to 89 centimeters (22.8 to 35.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; 33 percent sand; 22 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; 11 percent fine and medium carbonate threads; fragments; violent effervescence; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P1031. Horizon was subdivided for sampling purposes; common fine and medium carbonate threads concentrations
    Bk3—89 to 122 centimeters (35.0 to 48.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loam; 30 percent sand; 24 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable; moderate permeability; 11 percent fine and medium carbonate threads; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P1032. common fine and medium carbonate threads concentrations
    Bk4—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loam; 34 percent sand; 23 percent clay; massive; soft, very friable; moderate permeability; 11 percent fine and medium carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 89P1033. common fine and medium carbonate threads concentrations