IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pawnee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03NE109006
  • User Pedon ID: 03NE109006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 03NE109006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0992
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28226
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 40.8690567
  • Std. Longitude: -96.8066635
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 N
  • Range: 5 E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4 of NW 1/4
  • Location Description: Nine Mile Prairie. 150 feet Southwest of permenant pit site.
  • 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-G6—Lincoln, 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 #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pawnee
  • Classificaton Date - 6/12/2013
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pawnee
  • Classificaton Date - 9/25/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ANGE

    Andropogon gerardii

    big bluestem

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—38

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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

    5

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    410

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    270

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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; silt loam; 23 percent sand; 26 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable; 21.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 03N05046
    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; 24 percent sand; 28 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable; 21.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 03N05047
    A3—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; clay loam; 24 percent sand; 34 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; 21.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 03N05048
    A/B—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; clay; 23 percent sand; 40 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 21.0 fine and medium roots; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 03N05049
    Bt—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), dark brown (10YR 3/3) and brown (7.5YR 4/3), dry; clay; 26 percent sand; 42 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm; fragments. Lab sample # 03N05050