IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crete
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 55NE151001
  • User Pedon ID: 55NE151001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2244
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36391
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 40.4811096
  • Std. Longitude: -96.9894409
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 350 feet north and 80 feet west of southeast corner
  • Location Description: One mile west of Wilber, Nebraska, across road from west entrance to cemetery.
  • Map Unit: 3824—Crete silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE151—Saline
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE151—Saline County, 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: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • Classificaton Date - 9/6/2001
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • Classificaton Date - 11/5/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landform: interfluve
  • 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
  • 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—66

    33—81

    —66—

    —48—
    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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    180

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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; 4 percent sand; 25 percent clay; weak very fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A17617
    A—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; 4 percent sand; 28 percent clay; medium and coarse angular blocky parts to weak thick platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; hard, friable; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A17618
    AB—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; 3 percent sand; 36 percent clay; moderate fine granular parts to strong very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A17619
    Bt1—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay; 2 percent sand; 49 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to strong coarse angular blocky parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 21 percent fine dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A17620
    Bt2—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay; 3 percent sand; 45 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to strong fine angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 21 percent fine dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A17621
    Bt3—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay; 3 percent sand; 41 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate and strong coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A17622
    Bk1—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; 4 percent sand; 36 percent clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable; 0.5 roots; 3.0 pores; 1 percent fine dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A17623
    Bk2—107 to 132 centimeters (42.1 to 52.0 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; 3 percent sand; 32 percent clay; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 1 percent gray (10YR 5/1) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 roots; 3.0 pores; 1 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) iron-manganese concretions; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A17624
    C—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; 3 percent sand; 33 percent clay; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 1 percent gray (10YR 5/1) fine faint mottles; massive; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 pores; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17625