IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1979NE037134
  • User Pedon ID: 79NE037134
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 81P0353
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49197
  • Print Date: 1/29/2025

    • 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: 41.4850006
  • Std. Longitude: -97.0397186
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18N
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 396 meters E and 30 meters N of SW corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE037—Colfax
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: PAY, DAY, JRC
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 134
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shell
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shell
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Cumulic Haplustoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1979
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1979 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    1Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; hard, very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 81P01855
    1A12—20 to 61 centimeters (7.9 to 24.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; hard, very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P01856
    1C1—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior and 50 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, moist; silt loam; massive; hard, very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P01857. Weak medium and fine bedding planes.
    1C2—84 to 140 centimeters (33.1 to 55.1 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior and 50 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, moist; silt loam; 1 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; massive; hard, very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 81P01858. Weak fine bedding planes.; few fine faint 7.5YR44 mottles
    1C3—140 to 152 centimeters (55.1 to 59.8 inches); 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior and 50 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; silt loam; 1 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; massive; hard, very friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog. Weak fine bedding planes.; few fine faint 7.5YR44 mottles