IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crete
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 85NE035101
  • User Pedon ID: 85NE035101
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0626
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58920
  • 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: 40.3661118
  • Std. Longitude: -97.8644409
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 730 feet west and 426 feet north of the southeast 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: M. Kuzila
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Udertic Argiustolls
  • 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 #: 101
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • PSC - 45 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Pachic Argiustoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1985 (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
  • 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—63

    45—84

    —63—

    —39—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    514

    —

    180

    690

    —

    —

    11

    —

    —

    12

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    Ap—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; 7 percent sand; 22 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; hard, friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P3617. many fine and medium roots throughout
    A—17 to 30 centimeters (6.7 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 29 percent clay; strong medium platy structure; hard, friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P3618. many fine and medium roots
    BA—30 to 45 centimeters (11.8 to 17.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; 4 percent sand; 34 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P3619. common fine roots
    Bt1—45 to 63 centimeters (17.7 to 24.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; silty clay; 2 percent sand; 49 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to strong fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P3620. few fine roots between peds
    Bt2—63 to 84 centimeters (24.8 to 33.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, moist; silty clay; 3 percent sand; 46 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 11 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P3621. common fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations
    BC—84 to 100 centimeters (33.1 to 39.4 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; 3 percent sand; 38 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine prismatic structure; hard, firm; 11 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P3622. common fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations
    C1—100 to 122 centimeters (39.4 to 48.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; 5 percent sand; 28 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; friable; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses; 30 percent fine irregular carbonate concretions; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P3623. few fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; many fine carbonate concretions concentrations
    C2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) crushed, brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; 4 percent sand; 26 percent clay; 11 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; moderate coarse prismatic structure; soft, friable; 11 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses; 1 percent fine irregular carbonate masses; fragments. Lab sample # 86P3624. common fine soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; few fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; common fine distinct 7.5YR44 mottles