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: 10/12/2011 State: Nebraska
Describer: S. McVey, P. Cowsert, V. Jaehrling, E.
County: Sarpy
Benham, D. Shurtliff
Site ID: S11NE153003 MLRA: 107B -- Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
Site Note: Soil Survey Area: NE153 – Sarpy County,
Nebraska
Pedon ID: S11NE153003 Map Unit: 7234—Judson silty clay loam, 2 to 6
percent slopes
Pedon Note: Quad Name:
Lab Source ID: SSL
Lab Pedon #: 12N0011 Legal Description: SW 1/4 of NW 1/4 of Section 26,
Township 14N , Range 11E
Soil Name as Described/Sampled: Judson Latitude: 41 degrees 9 minutes 17.60 seconds north
Soil Name as Correlated: Longitude: 96 degrees 9 minutes 22.60 seconds
west
Classification: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive,
mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
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
Secondary Earth Cover: Grassland rangeland
Province
Physiographic Section: Dissected till plains Existing Vegetation: goldenrod, Indiangrass,
Kentucky bluegrass, little bluestem, Maximilian
sunflower, smooth brome
State Physiographic Area: Parent Material: slope alluvium
Local Physiographic Area: Bedrock Kind:
Geomorphic Setting: on footslope of base slope
of upland
Bedrock Depth:
Upslope Shape: linear Bedrock Hardness:
Cross Slope Shape: concave Bedrock Fracture Interval:
Particle Size Control Section: 25 to 100 cm. Surface Fragments:
Description origin: NASIS Description database: NSSL
Diagnostic Features: mollic epipedon 0 to 95 cm.
cambic horizon 95 to 170 cm.
Slope
(%) Elevation
(meters) Aspect
(deg) MAAT
(C) MSAT
(C) MWAT
(C)
4.0
0
MAP
(mm)
154
Frost-
Free
Days
Drainage
Class
well
Slope
Length
(meters)
Upslope
Length
(meters)