IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crete
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 79NE059003
  • User Pedon ID: 79NE059003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0197
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 46930
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 40.4027028
  • Std. Longitude: -97.6338083
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5 N
  • Range: 3 W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 2110 ft S and 80 ft E of NW corner
  • Map Unit: 3825z—Crete silt loam, 1 to 3 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-D6—Shickley, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Hammer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Udertic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 197
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • PSC - 33 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/17/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1979 (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

    33—74

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    —41—
    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); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; 10 percent sand; 18 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; 7 percent sand; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; hard, friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    BA—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt1—33 to 53 centimeters (13.0 to 20.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; silty clay; 5 percent sand; 44 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; organic stains on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt2—53 to 74 centimeters (20.9 to 29.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) crushed and very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay; 6 percent sand; 39 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to strong coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; organic stains on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary.
    BC—74 to 99 centimeters (29.1 to 39.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; 9 percent sand; 27 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 25 percent fine and medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; 25 percent fine and medium carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary.
    C—99 to 152 centimeters (39.0 to 59.8 inches); pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist; silt loam; 7 percent sand; 22 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, very friable; 25 percent fine and medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent fine and medium carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence.