IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pawnee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 88NE109001
  • User Pedon ID: 88NE109001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0894
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 40.8691673
  • Std. Longitude: -96.8058319
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 950 feet S and 2440 feet E of NW corner
  • Location Description: Nine-Mile Prairie research area
  • Map Unit: 7503—Pawnee clay loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE109—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE109—Lancaster County, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Arnold, Huscher, Brown
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • 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 - Pawnee
  • PSC - 31 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/3/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pawnee
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Aquic Argiudoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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—31

    31—86

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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

    5

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    —

    —

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    180

    80

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    —

    —

    21

    27

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dry; silty clay loam; 18 percent sand; 29 percent clay; strong fine granular structure; slightly hard; 5.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P4818; dry when described;
    A2—8 to 21 centimeters (3.1 to 8.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dry; clay loam; 25 percent sand; 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; hard; 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 88P4819; dry when described;
    AB—21 to 31 centimeters (8.3 to 12.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, dry; clay loam; 26 percent sand; 35 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard; 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P4820
    Bt1—31 to 64 centimeters (12.2 to 25.2 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) interior, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, dry; clay; 19 percent sand; 42 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to strong coarse angular blocky structure; very hard; 2.5 fine roots in cracks; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P4821; dry when described;
    Bt2—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; clay loam; 32 percent sand; 39 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; fragments. Lab sample # 88P4822; dry when described;