IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sulco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988NE057007
  • User Pedon ID: S1988NE057007
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-benchmark lab pedonsmlra72-SDJR comp peds
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0139
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61243
  • 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: 40.2794610
  • Std. Longitude: -101.5249060
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4N
  • Range: 37W
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet north and 1800 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: 1849—Sulco loam, 9 to 30 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-C5—Ough, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Hoover
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Aridic Ustorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sulco (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/21/2014
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Colby
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, mesic Aridic Ustochrept
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 21
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    free carbonates

    ochric epipedon

    secondary carbonates

    0—153

    0—15

    8—69

    —153—

    —15—

    —61—
    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

    14

    —

    —

    1015

    —

    90

    46

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P1047
    Bk1—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 11 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P1048. common fine and medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations
    Bk2—15 to 41 centimeters (5.9 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 30 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P1049. many fine and medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations
    Bk3—41 to 69 centimeters (16.1 to 27.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 30 percent fine and medium carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P1050. many fine and medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations
    C1—69 to 102 centimeters (27.2 to 40.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; massive; soft, very friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P1051
    C2—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; loam; massive; soft, very friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P1052
    C3—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; loam; massive; soft, very friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 89P1053