IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crete
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 84NE035001
  • User Pedon ID: 84NE035001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0742
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 54985
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 40.5172234
  • Std. Longitude: -98.1619415
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 900 feet east and 2500 feet north of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: 3824—Crete silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE035—Clay
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE035—Clay County, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Richard Zink
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Argiaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Butler
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Abruptic Argiaquoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1984 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—56

    36—74

    —56—

    —38—
    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 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; silt loam; 8 percent sand; 22 percent clay; medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P4114
    A—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, dry; silt loam; 5 percent sand; 26 percent clay; medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P4115
    AB—28 to 36 centimeters (11.0 to 14.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, dry; silty clay loam; 4 percent sand; 31 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P4116
    Bt1—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; silty clay; 3 percent sand; 48 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic, and strong coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; skeletans on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P4117
    Bt2—56 to 74 centimeters (22.0 to 29.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay; 4 percent sand; 40 percent clay; strong coarse prismatic, and strong coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; skeletans on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P4118
    BC—74 to 89 centimeters (29.1 to 35.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; 6 percent sand; 35 percent clay; 11 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) fine prominent mottles; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; black stains on faces of peds; 30 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P4119. many fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few fine lime concretions concentrations; common fine prominent 7.5YR54 mottles
    C—89 to 152 centimeters (35.0 to 59.8 inches); pale olive (5Y 6/3) interior, pale yellow (2.5Y 8/2) interior, dry; silt loam; 7 percent sand; 22 percent clay; 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; massive; slightly hard, friable; 30 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 84P4120. many fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few fine lime concretions concentrations; many medium prominent 7.5YR56 mottles