IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crete
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 55NE059002
  • User Pedon ID: 55NE059002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2243
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36390
  • 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: 40.6488876
  • Std. Longitude: -97.4261093
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 1450 feet north and 200 feet west of southeast corner
  • Location Description: One mile east and 1 3/4 miles south of Exeter, 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
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40097-E4—Friend SW, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B.H. Williams
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Udertic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • PSC - 25 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • Classificaton Date - 11/5/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Current Crop - corn
  • 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: 11/5/1955 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—53

    25—64

    —53—

    —39—
    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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    90

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 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 roots; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A17609
    A—13 to 20 centimeters (5.1 to 7.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; 4 percent sand; 32 percent clay; weak coarse angular blocky parts to fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 roots; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A17610
    AB—20 to 25 centimeters (7.9 to 9.8 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; 3 percent sand; 40 percent clay; strong fine granular parts to very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 3.0 roots; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A17611
    Bt1—25 to 53 centimeters (9.8 to 20.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay; 2 percent sand; 50 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 3.0 roots; 1 percent fine strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) iron-manganese concretions; dark brown (7.5YR 3/3); fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A17612
    Bt2—53 to 64 centimeters (20.9 to 25.2 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay; 2 percent sand; 43 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 3.0 roots; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A17613
    Bk1—64 to 94 centimeters (25.2 to 37.0 inches); light gray (5Y 7/2), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist; silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 33 percent clay; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) prominent and 1 percent brown (7.5YR 5/3) fine faint mottles; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 very fine roots; 1 percent fine dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A17614
    Bk2—94 to 122 centimeters (37.0 to 48.0 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist; silt loam; 5 percent sand; 26 percent clay; strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) and 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine and coarse mottles; coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; 1 percent spherical iron concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A17615
    C—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), moist; silt loam; 5 percent sand; 24 percent clay; strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 3 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine and coarse mottles; massive; soft, friable; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A17616