IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gibbon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1974NE121043
  • User Pedon ID: 1974NE121043
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1974NE121043
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2092
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36250
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 41.1911163
  • Std. Longitude: -97.8325729
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 1100 feet west and 100 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: 3529—Gibbon loam, occasionally flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE121—Merrick
  • MLRA: 71—Central Nebraska Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE121—Merrick County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41097-B7—Clarks, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Michael L. Peterson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, calcareous Fluvaquentic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 43
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gibbon
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, calcareous Fluvaquentic Endoaquolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/14/1974
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • 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: alluvium
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/14/1974 (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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—36

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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

    0.5

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A16589
    A12—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular, and moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A16590
    ACk—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 25 percent medium prominent gray (2.5Y 6/1) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A16591
    Ck1—56 to 94 centimeters (22.0 to 37.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 1 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, thymol-blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A16592
    C2—94 to 112 centimeters (37.0 to 44.1 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), gray (5Y 5/1), dry; loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 10 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium distinct light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A16593
    C3—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable; 25 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, thymol-blue. Lab sample # 40A16594