IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Canyon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002NE105002
  • User Pedon ID: S2002NE105002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0352
  • 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: 41.0320778
  • Std. Longitude: -103.6550916
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12N
  • Range: 56W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 1600 feet west and 250 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: BrB—BROWNSON-ROSEBUD-CANYON LOAMS, 0 TO 3 PERCENT SLOPES1524—Brownson-Rosebud-Canyon loams, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE105—Kimball
  • MLRA: 67A—Central High Plains, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE105—Kimball County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41103-A6—Kimball SW, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jay R. Wilson, Phil Young, David A. Vyain
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic, shallow Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Canyon
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic, shallow Ustic Torriorthents
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 0 to 23 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/2018
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over residuum weathered from calcareous sandstone
  • Landscape: tableland
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent slight weathered sandstone, calcareous at 23cm with <10
  • Geology: Ogallala formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/18/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 22
  • Plant Association Name: shallow limy
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    strongly coherent

    23 - 152

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

    free carbonates

    ochric epipedon

    paralithic contact

    0—152

    0—15

    23—152

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    —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

    0.5

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    1520.3

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; , 3 percent by weight 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and , 7 percent by weight 5-10-20 millimeter unspecified fragments and , 9 percent by weight 20-40-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 03N01842; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    C—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderate permeability; , 2 percent by weight 2-3-5 millimeter unspecified fragments and , 5 percent by weight 5-10-20 millimeter unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 03N01843; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    Cr—23 to 152 centimeters (9.1 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3); 100 percent by volume flat subangular strongly coherent cemented sandstone, calcareous fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified.; observed in pit, small