IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Meadin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1969NE095001
  • User Pedon ID: 1969NE095001
  • User Site Association ID: NE095-TUDS
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2140
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36295
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 40.2294444
  • Std. Longitude: -97.2950000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3 N
  • Range: 1 E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 1,666 feet south and 630 feet west of the NE corner
  • Map Unit: MwD—Meadin loam, 7 to 30 percent slopes3247—Meadin loam, 6 to 30 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE095—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE095—Jefferson County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40097-B3—Gladstone, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert S. Pollack and Lyle L. Davis
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Entic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Meadin
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Meadin
  • Classificaton Date - 9/16/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy alluvium over sandy and gravelly alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/16/1969 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—46

    46—112

    —46—

    —56—
    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

    4

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; soft, friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear smooth boundary.
    A2—13 to 36 centimeters (5.1 to 14.2 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; soft, friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary.
    AC—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; gravelly coarse sandy loam; single grain; loose, friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; gradual smooth boundary.
    2C1—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; gravelly coarse sand; single grain; loose; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual wavy boundary.
    2C2—69 to 112 centimeters (27.2 to 44.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; gravelly sand; single grain; loose; fragments.