IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Olbut
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979NE059010
  • User Pedon ID: 1979NE059010
  • User Site Association ID: NE059-TUDS
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0073
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47303
  • 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: 40.6333889
  • Std. Longitude: -97.5191111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 2,530 feet south and 620 feet east of the NW corner
  • Map Unit: Ob—Olbut-Butler silt loams, 0 to 1 percent slopes3812—Olbut-Butler silt loams, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE059—Fillmore
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE059—Fillmore County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40097-F5—Fairmont, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Roger R. Hammer and Michael W. Reardon
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Argiaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Olbut
  • PSC - 18 to 68 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/2010
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Olbut
  • Classificaton Date - 9/17/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: depression
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for brief periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/17/1979 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • 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

    aquic conditions

    salt accumulations

    0—48

    18—81

    28—152

    28—152

    —48—

    —63—

    —124—

    —124—
    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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    0

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; weak very thick platy parts to weak very fine granular structure; hard, very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bt—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay; strong very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Btz1—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 1 percent fine prominent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; violent effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6; gradual wavy boundary.
    Btz2—48 to 81 centimeters (18.9 to 31.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silty clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 1 percent fine prominent olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; gradual wavy boundary.
    BCz—81 to 102 centimeters (31.9 to 40.2 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2), olive gray (5Y 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; violent effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; gradual wavy boundary.
    Cz—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); olive (5Y 5/3), pale yellow (5Y 7/3), dry; silty clay loam; massive; hard, very friable; 25 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8.