IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pawnee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1958NE133001
  • User Pedon ID: 1958NE133001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2297
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36994
  • 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: 40.1233330
  • Std. Longitude: -96.1175003
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2
  • Range: 12 E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 0.2 miles (1056 feet) west and 160 feet south of center
  • Location Description: Located about 2 miles east and 1 mile north of Pawnee City, Nebraska.
  • Map Unit: 7506—Pawnee clay loam, 3 to 11 percent slopes, eroded7501—Pawnee clay loam, 4 to 8 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE133—Pawnee
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE133—Pawnee County, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Jordan, J. Elder, R. Greenawalt
  • 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: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pawnee
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/3/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pawnee
  • Classificaton Date - 9/11/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/11/1958 (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

    argillic horizon

    0—43

    43—97

    —43—

    —54—
    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

    6

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    —

    —

    —

    270

    787

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    11.7

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silt loam; 21 percent sand; 27 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A18014
    A—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silty clay loam; 19 percent sand; 30 percent clay; moderate fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A18015
    AB—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; clay; 19 percent sand; 43 percent clay; 1 percent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) fine prominent mottles; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A18016
    Bt1—43 to 71 centimeters (16.9 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), dry; clay; 20 percent sand; 45 percent clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A18017
    Bt2—71 to 97 centimeters (28.0 to 38.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dry; clay; 29 percent sand; 43 percent clay; 21 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium distinct mottles; weak coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A18018
    BC—97 to 122 centimeters (38.2 to 48.0 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), 50 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), dry; clay; 28 percent sand; 40 percent clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A18019
    C—122 to 160 centimeters (48.0 to 63.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; clay loam; 28 percent sand; 39 percent clay; 21 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) coarse distinct mottles; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, firm; fragments. Lab sample # 40A18020