IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Otoe
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1996NE067001
  • User Pedon ID: 1996NE067001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0084
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68559
  • 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: 40.4754181
  • Std. Longitude: -96.7585831
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 1600 feet S and 650 feet E of the NW corner
  • Location Description: About 2 miles south and 3 miles west of Cortland, NE.
  • Map Unit: OtD—Otoe silty clay loam, 5 to 9 percent slopes7464—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-D7—Clatonia, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. Tyler Labenz, Francis Behohlavy, Steve Scheinost, Mark Willoughby.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Otoe
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/22/2013
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Otoe
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/23/1996
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey loess
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/23/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 452-99B
  • 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—15

    15—81

    —15—

    —66—
    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

    8

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    315

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silty clay; 2 percent sand; 41 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; hard, friable; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P00516
    Bt1—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); 80 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), 20 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) and pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silty clay; 1 percent sand; 44 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 21.0 very fine tubular pores; clay films on all faces of peds and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) organic stains on faces of peds and in pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P00517. Few fine irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) soft masses of iron accumulation and few fine and medium rounded light gray (2.5Y 7/2) iron depletions and few fine rounded masses of iron-manganese accumulation.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1174495; continuous - phpvsfiid 1174495
    Bt2—38 to 56 centimeters (15.0 to 22.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; silty clay loam; 1 percent sand; 39 percent clay; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 21.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; clay films on all faces of peds and faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P00518. Few fine irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) soft masses of iron accumulation and few fine rounded soft masses of iron-manganese accumulation.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1174497; continuous - phpvsfiid 1174497
    Bt3—56 to 81 centimeters (22.0 to 31.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; silty clay loam; 1 percent sand; 36 percent clay; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 3.0 fine roots in cracks; 3.0 fine tubular pores; clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P00519. Common fine irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of iron accumulation and common very coarse irregular gray (2.5Y 6/1) iron depletions.; continuous - phpvsfiid 1174499; continuous - phpvsfiid 1174499
    BC—81 to 102 centimeters (31.9 to 40.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; silty clay loam; 1 percent sand; 34 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 3.0 very fine roots in cracks; 3.0 fine tubular pores; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P00520. Many medium and coarse irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) soft masses of iron accumulation and common rounded soft masses of iron-manganese accumulation.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1174500; patchy - phpvsfiid 1174500
    C1—102 to 127 centimeters (40.2 to 50.0 inches); gray (5Y 5/1), light gray (2.5Y 7/2), dry; silty clay loam; 1 percent sand; 32 percent clay; hard, friable; 3.0 fine roots in cracks; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P00521. common medium and coarse irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) soft masses of iron accumulation and few coarse cylindrical iron concretions throughout.
    C2—127 to 145 centimeters (50.0 to 57.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/2), pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), dry; silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 35 percent clay; hard, friable; 3.0 very fine roots in cracks; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P00522. many medium and coarse irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/8 ) masses of iron accumulation and common rounded soft masses of iron-manganese accumulation.
    2C3—145 to 203 centimeters (57.1 to 79.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), brown (7.5YR 5/3), dry; silty clay loam; 13 percent sand; 35 percent clay; hard, friable; 3.0 very fine roots in cracks; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P00523. common fine irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of iron accumulation and common rounded soft masses of iron-manganese accumulation.