IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gayville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1980NE151003
  • User Pedon ID: 1980NE151003
  • User Site Association ID: NE151-TUDS
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80P0284
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 48062
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024
  • 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: 40.6869444
  • Std. Longitude: -97.0463889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 1,620 feet north and 250 feet west of the SE corner
  • Map Unit: Bx—Butler-Gayville silt loams, 0 to 1 percent slopes3818—Butler-Gayville silt loams, 0 to 1 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-F1—Dorchester, Nebraska
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Dean W. Damoude and Donald A. Yost
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Leptic Natrustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gayville
  • PSC - 3 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gayville
  • Classificaton Date - 4/16/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/16/1980 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    albic horizon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    0—3

    3—53

    53—152

    —3—

    —50—

    —99—

    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

    E—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); gray (10YR 6/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 80P01536. 80P1536
    Bt1—3 to 15 centimeters (1.2 to 5.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P01537. 80P1537
    Bt2—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silty clay; strong medium prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P01538. 0.2 percent soluble salts
    Bt3—30 to 53 centimeters (11.8 to 20.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P01539. 0.5 percent soluble salts
    BC—53 to 89 centimeters (20.9 to 35.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 1 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P01540. 0.4 percent soluble salts
    Cg1—89 to 122 centimeters (35.0 to 48.0 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; hard, firm; 30 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 80P01541. 0.2 percent soluble salts
    Cg2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); light gray (2.5Y 7/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; silty clay loam; massive; hard, firm; 30 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.4. Lab sample # 80P01542. 0.1 percent soluble salts