IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Otoe
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1996NE067004
  • User Pedon ID: 1996NE067004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 97P0087
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 68562
  • 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: 40.1347389
  • Std. Longitude: -96.6208649
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 1700 feet W and 1000 feet N of the SE 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

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Scheinost, Tyler Labenz, Mark Willoughby.
  • 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 #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Otoe
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/28/2013
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Otoe
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquic Hapludalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1996
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1996 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—13

    13—84

    —13—

    —71—
    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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    408

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    315

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay; 2 percent sand; 40 percent clay; friable; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 0.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P00540
    Bt1—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; 1 percent sand; 49 percent clay; weak medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P00541. Continuous clay films on vertical and horizontal faces of peds and common patchy very dark gray (10YR 3/1) organic coats on faces of peds; few fine irregular brown (7.5YR 4/4) masses of iron accumulation.
    Bt2—25 to 53 centimeters (9.8 to 20.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay; 1 percent sand; 46 percent clay; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; clay films on faces of peds and very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organic stains on faces of peds; 3 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P00542. continuous - phpvsfiid 1174502; patchy - phpvsfiid 1174503; continuous - phpvsfiid 1174502; patchy - phpvsfiid 1174503
    Bt3—53 to 84 centimeters (20.9 to 33.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) silty clay loam; 1 percent sand; 39 percent clay; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, organic stains on faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions and 3 percent fine irregular yellowish red (5YR 4/6) iron concretions and 3 percent medium irregular light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) iron concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P00543. continuous - phpvsfiid 1174504; patchy - phpvsfiid 1174505; continuous - phpvsfiid 1174504; patchy - phpvsfiid 1174505
    BC1—84 to 97 centimeters (33.1 to 38.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silty clay loam; 1 percent sand; 35 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; pressure faces on faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions and 3 percent fine irregular yellowish red (5YR 4/6) iron concretions and 3 percent medium irregular gray (2.5Y 6/1) iron concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 97P00544. patchy - phpvsfiid 1174506; patchy - phpvsfiid 1174506
    BC2—97 to 109 centimeters (38.2 to 42.9 inches); 50 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) and 50 percent gray (2.5Y 5/1) silty clay loam; 4 percent sand; 31 percent clay; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 21 percent medium and coarse irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) iron concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P00545. Few medium and coarse irregular light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) iron depletions and few fine rounded masses of iron-manganese accumulation and few coarse irregular masses of iron-manganese accumulation between peds.
    2Ab—109 to 127 centimeters (42.9 to 50.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) silty clay loam; 9 percent sand; 29 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent silt coats throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P00546. Common fine irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of iron accumulation and few fine rounded masses of iron-manganese accumulation; gradual wavy boundary.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1174507; patchy - phpvsfiid 1174507
    2C1—127 to 165 centimeters (50.0 to 65.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) silty clay loam; 13 percent sand; 29 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; silt coats throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, hellige-truog; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 97P00547. Common fine and medium irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of iron accumulation and common fine rounded masses of iron- manganese accumulation; 2% gravel.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1174508; patchy - phpvsfiid 1174508
    2C2—165 to 203 centimeters (65.0 to 79.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 33 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine and fine tubular pores; 10 percent silt coats throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 97P00548. Common, fine and medium irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of iron accumulation and common fine rounded masses of iron- manganese accumulation; 4% gravel.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1174501; patchy - phpvsfiid 1174501