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: P.T.C., V.M.J. County: Sarpy
Site ID: S11NE153004 MLRA: 107B -- Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
Site Note: Soil Survey Area: NE153 – Sarpy County,
Nebraska
Pedon ID: S11NE153004 Map Unit: 7210—Burchard-Contrary-Steinauer
complex, 7 to 16 percent slopes
Pedon Note: Quad Name:
Lab Source ID: SSL
Lab Pedon #: 12N0012 Legal Description:
Soil Name as Described/Sampled: Liston Latitude: 41 degrees 9 minutes 18.70 seconds
north
Soil Name as Correlated: Longitude: 96 degrees 9 minutes 20.60 seconds
west
Classification: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic
Typic Calciudolls
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
Physiographic Section: Dissected till plains Existing Vegetation:
State Physiographic Area: Parent Material: till
Local Physiographic Area: Bedrock Kind:
Geomorphic Setting: on footslope of upland
on footslope of hillslope
Bedrock Depth:
Upslope Shape: linear Bedrock Hardness:
Secondary Earth Cover: Other grass/herbaceous
cover
Cross Slope Shape: concave Bedrock Fracture Interval:
Particle Size Control Section: Surface Fragments: 10.0 percent nonflat 2- to 75millimeter
Description origin: NASIS Description database: NSSL
Diagnostic Features: mollic epipedon 0 to 23 cm.
free carbonates 0 to 170 cm.
secondary carbonates 23 to 170 cm.
calcic horizon 23 to 50 cm.
cambic horizon 50 to 102 cm.
Cont. Site ID: S11NE153004 Pedon ID: S11NE153004
Slope
(%) Elevation
(meters) Aspect
(deg) MAAT
(C) MSAT
(C) MWAT
(C)
5.0
315
MAP
(mm)
168
Frost-
Free
Days
Drainage
Class
well
Slope
Length
(meters)
Upslope
Length
(meters)