IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pawnee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03NE109001
  • User Pedon ID: 03NE109001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0987
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28221
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 40.6957779
  • Std. Longitude: -96.8554993
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8 N
  • Range: 5 E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 of NW1/4
  • Location Description: Spring Creek. Near North fence line up near road, North of headquarters about 300 feet West of weather station.
  • Map Unit: 7503—Pawnee clay loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE109—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE109—Lancaster County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40096-F7—Denton, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pawnee
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/2013
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pawnee
  • Classificaton Date - 9/25/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey till
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/25/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—25

    20—77

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    —57—
    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

    5

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    432

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    135

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; loam; 31 percent sand; 27 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 03N05017
    A2—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; clay loam; 31 percent sand; 28 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 03N05018
    A3—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; clay loam; 33 percent sand; 30 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; soft, very friable; nonflat 75-?-250 millimeter quartz fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 03N05019
    Bt1—20 to 25 centimeters (7.9 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; clay loam; 31 percent sand; 36 percent clay; weak subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 03N05020
    Bt2—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry; clay; 26 percent sand; 43 percent clay; weak subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 03N05021
    Bt3—43 to 59 centimeters (16.9 to 23.2 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dry; clay; 24 percent sand; 44 percent clay; 1 percent fine mottles; weak subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 03N05023
    Bt4—59 to 77 centimeters (23.2 to 30.3 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4), dry; clay loam; 28 percent sand; 39 percent clay; light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) mottles; weak coarse blocky structure; hard, firm; 1 percent fine carbonate masses; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 03N05024
    C—77 to 100 centimeters (30.3 to 39.4 inches); clay loam; 32 percent sand; 34 percent clay; yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments. Lab sample # 03N05022