IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Holdrege
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1986NE163221
  • User Pedon ID: 1986NE163221
  • User Site Association ID: NE163-TUDS
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0047
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59343
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 41.0916667
  • Std. Longitude: -98.8833333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 14W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 2,100 feet south and 200 feet west of the NE corner
  • Map Unit: HoB—Holdrege silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes2668—Holdrege silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE163—Sherman
  • MLRA: 71—Central Nebraska Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE163—Sherman County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41098-A8—Ravenna, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Frank Wahl
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 221
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Holdrege
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/15/2011
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Holdrege
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous fine-silty loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1986 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—43

    30—61

    —43—

    —31—
    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

    2

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    644

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    90

    61

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; 23 percent sand; 22 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P0269
    A—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; 19 percent sand; 27 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; noneffervescent; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P0270
    Bt1—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; 16 percent sand; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 6.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P0271
    Bt2—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; 14 percent sand; 34 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P0272
    BC—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 32 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.3; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P0273
    C—81 to 152 centimeters (31.9 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; 22 percent sand; 21 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9. Lab sample # 87P0274