IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wymore
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 61NE109001
  • User Pedon ID: 61NE109001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2338
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37035
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 40.5538417
  • Std. Longitude: -96.5433222
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7 N
  • Range: 8 E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 1056 ft W and 450 ft N of SE corner
  • Map Unit: 7693—Wymore silty clay loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE109—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE109—Lancaster County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40096-E5—Firth, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Joseph M. Downs
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wymore
  • PSC - 18 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/25/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wymore
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1961
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • 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: 6/1/1961 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    redox concentrations

    0—46

    18—64

    84—152

    —46—

    —46—

    —84—
    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

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; 6 percent sand; 60 percent silt; 34 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bt1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed and very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay; 4 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 48 percent clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent fine brown (10YR 4/3) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt2—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) crushed and very dark grayish olive (10Y 3/2) silty clay; 3 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 50 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent thin clay films; 2 percent fine brown (10YR 4/3) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; gradual smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 779579; continuous - phpvsfiid 779579
    Bt3—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay; 3 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 45 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent thin clay films; 2 percent fine moderately coherent cemented dark concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; abrupt wavy boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 779580; continuous - phpvsfiid 779580
    Bca3—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silty clay loam; 4 percent sand; 63 percent silt; 33 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 2 percent clay films; 10 percent strongly coherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; gradual wavy boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 779581; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 779581
    Cca—84 to 114 centimeters (33.1 to 44.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 38 percent clay; massive; friable; 10 percent carbonate coats on faces of peds; 25 percent medium distinct brown (10YR 5/3) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent strongly coherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; very slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; gradual smooth boundary.
    C1—114 to 132 centimeters (44.9 to 52.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; 3 percent sand; 64 percent silt; 33 percent clay; massive; friable; 10 percent carbonate coats on faces of peds; 25 percent medium distinct brown (10YR 5/3) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent fine strongly coherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; very slight effervescence; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8; gradual smooth boundary.
    C2—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; 4 percent sand; 62 percent silt; 34 percent clay; massive; friable; 25 percent medium distinct brown (10YR 5/3) masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent fine strongly coherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; very slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9.