IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wood River
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1950NE019003
  • User Pedon ID: 1950NE019003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2200
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36352
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 40.7427788
  • Std. Longitude: -98.7900009
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9 N
  • Range: 13 W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 150 feet N of road-railroad crossing SE1/4 SW1/4
  • Location Description: Platte River valley terrace
  • Map Unit: Wr—Wood River silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes8960—Wood River silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE019—Buffalo
  • MLRA: 71—Central Nebraska Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE019—Buffalo County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40098-F7—Gibbon South, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Natrustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wood River
  • Classificaton Date - 8/10/2010
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Rokeby
  • Classificaton Date - 7/15/1950
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Current Crop - corn
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: water worked eolian deposits and/or eolian deposits
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/13/1950 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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—61

    33—102

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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

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), moist; silt loam; granular structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17302
    A12—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), moist; silt loam; granular structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17303
    Bt21—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; clay; strong blocky structure; moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17304
    Bt22—61 to 79 centimeters (24.0 to 31.1 inches);, 10YR 2/3 (10YR 2/3), moist; clay; strong blocky structure; moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17305
    Bt23—79 to 102 centimeters (31.1 to 40.2 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay, clay loam; weak blocky structure; hard, moderately plastic; weakly coherent cemented carbonate concretions and strongly coherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17306
    B3—102 to 114 centimeters (40.2 to 44.9 inches);, reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; weak blocky structure; friable; carbonate concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17307
    C1—114 to 142 centimeters (44.9 to 55.9 inches);, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; silt loam; weak blocky structure; friable; carbonate masses; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17308
    C2—142 to 183 centimeters (55.9 to 72.0 inches);, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17309. calc underlain by loamy f s