IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wood River
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1951NE079010
  • User Pedon ID: 1951NE079010
  • User Site Association ID: NE079-TUDS
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2336
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37033
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 40.9605591
  • Std. Longitude: -98.5839887
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 N
  • Range: 11 W
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet north and 1250 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: Wr—Wood River silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes8023—Wood River-Silver Creek silt loams, 0 to 1 percent slopes8960—Wood River silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes8963—Wood River-Silver Creek silt loams, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE079—Hall
  • MLRA: 71—Central Nebraska Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE079—Hall County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40098-H5—Shelton NE, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B.H. Williams
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Natrustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wood River
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wood River
  • Classificaton Date - 10/9/1951
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/9/1951 (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

    natric horizon

    0—36

    36—81

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    —45—
    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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; clear smooth boundary.
    A—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silt loam; weak medium and coarse angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Btn1—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; strong coarse prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately plastic; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3; gradual smooth boundary.
    Btn2—53 to 81 centimeters (20.9 to 31.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bz—81 to 91 centimeters (31.9 to 35.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; clear smooth boundary.
    Bk1—91 to 112 centimeters (35.8 to 44.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; massive; soft, friable; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2; clear smooth boundary.
    Bk2—112 to 137 centimeters (44.1 to 53.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; massive; soft, friable; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.1; clear smooth boundary. soluble salts, 0.25 percent
    C—137 to 152 centimeters (53.9 to 59.8 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silt loam; massive; soft, friable; fragments; strong effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.3.