IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hastings
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 55NE059001
  • User Pedon ID: 55NE059001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2242
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36389
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 40.5105553
  • Std. Longitude: -97.5158310
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 1250 feet east and 120 feet north of southwest corner
  • Location Description: 1 mile south and 4 1/2 miles east of center of Geneva, Nebraska.
  • Map Unit: 3824—Crete silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE059—Fillmore
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE059—Fillmore County, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B.H. Williams
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Udic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hastings
  • PSC - 25 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • Classificaton Date - 5/5/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/5/1955 (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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—48

    25—69

    —48—

    —44—
    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

    1

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    —

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; 6 percent sand; 25 percent clay; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; soft, friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A17601
    A—15 to 20 centimeters (5.9 to 7.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 31 percent clay; weak coarse angular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; soft, friable; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A17602
    AB—20 to 25 centimeters (7.9 to 9.8 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; 4 percent sand; 36 percent clay; strong fine and medium granular, and very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A17603
    Bt1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay; 3 percent sand; 47 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic, and strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 3.0 fine roots; very dark brown (10YR 2/2) coats on vertical faces of peds; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A17604
    Bt2—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay; 3 percent sand; 40 percent clay; weak and moderate coarse prismatic, and strong medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 3.0 fine roots; grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry, coats on vertical faces of peds and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist,; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A17605
    Bk1—69 to 99 centimeters (27.2 to 39.0 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist; silty clay loam; 4 percent sand; 30 percent clay; brown (10YR 5/3) and 1 percent yellow (10YR 8/6) fine faint mottles; weak medium and coarse angular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 roots; 21.0 pores; fine dark brown (10YR 3/3) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A17606
    Bk2—99 to 124 centimeters (39.0 to 48.8 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 8/3), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), moist; silt loam; 5 percent sand; 27 percent clay; strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 3 percent pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3) fine faint mottles; massive, and subangular blocky; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 pores; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A17607
    C—124 to 152 centimeters (48.8 to 59.8 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2), pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), moist; silt loam; 4 percent sand; 24 percent clay; brown (10YR 5/3) distinct and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) prominent and 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) faint mottles; massive; soft, friable; 0.5 fine roots; 21.0 pores; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A17608