IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Otoe
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1993NE067001
  • User Pedon ID: 1993NE067001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0096
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66284
  • 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: 40.0088882
  • Std. Longitude: -96.7766647
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: 2640 feet north and 2030 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: 7464—Otoe silty clay loam, 6 to 11 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE067—Gage
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE067—Gage County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40096-A7—Odell, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve A. Scheinost, A Tyler Labenz, Stephen L. Hartung
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: representative pedon for component
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Otoe
  • PSC - 13 to 51 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/21/2013
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wymore
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Aquertic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • Classificaton Date - 11/18/1993
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess over till derived from mixed-calcareous
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/18/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 24
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—13

    13—51

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    —38—
    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

    7

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    225

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) silty clay; 42 percent clay; weak fine and medium granular structure; firm; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00719
    Bt1—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; 39 percent clay; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00720. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1174482; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1174482
    Bt2—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); 70 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and 30 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent medium irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00721. patchy - phpvsfiid 1174483; patchy - phpvsfiid 1174483
    2BC—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) silty clay loam; 25 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) fine and medium prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary.
    2C—76 to 107 centimeters (29.9 to 42.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) silty clay loam; 25 percent red (2.5YR 4/8) fine and medium prominent mottles; massive; friable; 1 percent fine carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified.