Nebraska Soils Field Trip - Virginia Tech

4th IUSS Soil Classification Conference Field Tour Guidebook
PEDON DESCRIPTION
Print Date: 03/29/2012 Country: USA
Description Date: 10/7/2011 State: Nebraska
Describer: S. McVey, D. Shurtliff, K. Scheffe County: Sarpy
Site ID: S11NE153002 MLRA: 107B -- Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
Site Note: Site is original landfill cap replaced 21
Soil Survey Area: NE153 -- Sarpy County, Nebraska
yr b.p.
Pedon ID: S11NE153002 Map Unit: 9967—Sanitary landfill
Pedon Note: Artifacts: 0-6 cm, 52-102 cm Quad Name:
Lab Source ID: SSL
Lab Pedon #: 12N0010 Legal Description:
Soil Name as Described/Sampled: Sanitary
Landfill #2
Latitude: 41 degrees 9 minutes 42.00 seconds north
Soil Name as Correlated: Longitude: 95 degrees 57 minutes 25.00 seconds
west
Classification: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive,
mesic Fluventic Eutrudepts
Datum:
Pedon Type: UTM Zone:
Pedon Purpose: UTM Easting:
Taxon Kind: UTM Northing:
Associated Soils:
Physiographic Division: Interior Plains Primary Earth Cover: Grass/herbaceous cover
Physiographic Province: Central Lowland
Province
Secondary Earth Cover: Other grass/herbaceous
cover
Physiographic Section: Dissected till plains Existing Vegetation: Indiangrass, Missouri
goldenrod, smooth brome, thistle
State Physiographic Area: Parent Material: human transported material
Local Physiographic Area:
Geomorphic Setting: on shoulder of upland
Bedrock Kind:
on shoulder of hill
on shoulder of sanitary landfill
Bedrock Depth:
Upslope Shape: convex Bedrock Hardness:
Cross Slope Shape: linear Bedrock Fracture Interval:
Particle Size Control Section: 25 to 100 cm. Surface Fragments:
Description origin: NASIS Description database: NSSL
Diagnostic Features: ochric epipedon 0 to 18 cm.
cambic horizon 6 to 52 cm.
free carbonates 6 to 46 cm.
Cont. Site ID: S11NE153002 Pedon ID: S11NE153002
Slope
(%) Elevation
(meters) Aspect
(deg) MAAT
(C) MSAT
(C) MWAT
(C)
4.0 335.3 270
MAP
(mm)
126
Frost-
Free
Days
Drainage
Class
well
Slope
Length
(meters)
Upslope
Length
(meters)