IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): McCook
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005NE157005
  • User Pedon ID: S2005NE157005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0132
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17838
  • Print Date: 5/19/2024

    • 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: 41.9091682
  • Std. Longitude: -104.0522232
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22 North
  • Range: 58 West
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 1900 feet south and 2000 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: 2302—McCook loam, rarely flooded
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE157—Scotts Bluff
  • MLRA: 67A—Central High Plains, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE157—Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41104-H1—Lyman, Wyoming

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dave Vyain
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - McCook
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/26/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - second edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: very rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/26/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—34

    34—61

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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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    1237

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium tubular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00398; moist when described; observed in trench
    Ap2—10 to 34 centimeters (3.9 to 13.4 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 medium tubular and 1.0 coarse tubular pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00399; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bw—34 to 61 centimeters (13.4 to 24.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium tubular and 5.0 fine tubular pores; 35 percent prominent organic stains on vertical faces of peds; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N00400; moist when described; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 326344; continuous - phpvsfiid 326344
    Bk1—61 to 89 centimeters (24.0 to 35.0 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 medium tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent distinct organic stains on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses lining pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00401; moist when described; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 326345; continuous - phpvsfiid 326345
    Bk2—89 to 109 centimeters (35.0 to 42.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine tubular pores; 1 percent distinct organic stains on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses lining pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00402; moist when described; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 326346; continuous - phpvsfiid 326346
    Bk3—109 to 140 centimeters (42.9 to 55.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine tubular pores; 6 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 7 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses lining pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N00403; moist when described; observed in trench
    BC—140 to 195 centimeters (55.1 to 76.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 25 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses lining pores; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 06N00404; moist when described; observed in trench