IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Samsil
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1983NE165029
  • User Pedon ID: 83NE165029
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0225
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 53919
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 42.9611130
  • Std. Longitude: -103.5444412
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 35N
  • Range: 53W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet N and 400 feet E of SW corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE165—Sioux
  • MLRA: 60A—Pierre Shale Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Willoughby and C. Derickson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, calcareous, mesic, shallow Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 29
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Samsil
  • PSC - 25 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Samsil
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, montmorillonitic, calcareous, mesic, shall
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1983
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1983 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    0—10

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    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

    15

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    1A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01174
    1AC—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; clay; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P01175
    1C1—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; clay; weak coarse prismatic, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P01176
    1C2—36 to 43 centimeters (14.2 to 16.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; shaly clay; massive; hard, firm; 40 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P01177. Common distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) stains on shale fragments.
    1Cr1—43 to 76 centimeters (16.9 to 29.9 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) interior, olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior, dry; unweathered bedrock; hard; 15 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 84P01178. few manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features
    1Cr2—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) interior, olive gray (5Y 4/2) interior, dry; unweathered bedrock; 1 percent lime masses and 1 percent gypsum masses; fragments. Not sampled.; few soft masses of lime concentrations; few masses of gypsum concentrations