IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Leshara
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1953NE155003
  • User Pedon ID: 1953NE155003
  • User Site Association ID: NE155-TUDS
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2280
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36977
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 41.0752868
  • Std. Longitude: -96.3578054
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13 N
  • Range: 9 E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet south and 50 feet west of the NE corner of the NW quarter
  • Map Unit: 3Le—Leshara silt loam, moderately deep8503—Lex loam, occasionally flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE155—Saunders
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE155—Saunders County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41096-A3—Ashland East, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B.H. Williams and Donald A. Yost
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, mesic Fluvaquentic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Leshara
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Leshara
  • Classificaton Date - 5/5/1953
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for very brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/5/1953 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    aquic conditions

    0—25

    117—132

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    —15—
    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 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silt loam; strong fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; strong fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 3 percent worm casts; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary.
    AC—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 3 percent worm casts; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary.
    C1—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), light gray (10YR 7/2), dry; silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; soft, friable; 25 percent fine prominent brown (7.5YR 5/3) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary.
    C2—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; 10 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 5/3) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear smooth boundary.
    C3—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0; clear smooth boundary.
    C4—81 to 117 centimeters (31.9 to 46.1 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), dry; very fine sandy loam; massive; soft, very friable; 10 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 5/3) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slight effervescence; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.2; abrupt boundary.
    Cg—117 to 132 centimeters (46.1 to 52.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark gray (10YR 4/1) and light gray (10YR 7/1), dry; silty clay, silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to strong fine and medium granular structure; hard, firm; 10 percent fine faint brown (7.5YR 5/3) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0.