IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Longford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978NE151025
  • User Pedon ID: 1978NE151025
  • User Site Association ID: NE151-TUDS
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0261
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46994
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 40.5172222
  • Std. Longitude: -97.3127778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 2,300 feet south and 500 feet west of the NE corner
  • Map Unit: LoC—Longford silty clay loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes3403—Longford silty clay loam, 3 to 7 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE151—Saline
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE151—Saline County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40097-E3—Friend SE, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dean W. DaMoude
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Udic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 25
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Longford
  • PSC - 25 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Longford
  • Classificaton Date - 5/5/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loveland loess loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/5/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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—41

    25—97

    —41—

    —72—
    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

    5

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    473

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    90

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    A—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01379
    Bt1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01380
    Bt2—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01381
    Bt3—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01382
    Bt4—86 to 97 centimeters (33.9 to 38.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P01383
    BC—97 to 107 centimeters (38.2 to 42.1 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P01384
    C—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9. Lab sample # 79P01385