IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Skilak
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989NE165002
  • User Pedon ID: 89NE165002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0274
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61378
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 42.9380569
  • Std. Longitude: -103.9241638
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 34N
  • Range: 56W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 3100 feet E and 2100 feet S of NW corner
  • Location Description: Sioux County, NE.
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE165—Sioux
  • MLRA: 60A—Pierre Shale Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mark Willoughby and Bob Rayer.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Skilak
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Unknown
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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
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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay; weak fine granular structure; hard, firm; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P01548
    Bw1—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P01549
    C1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; strong effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P01550
    C2—33 to 71 centimeters (13.0 to 28.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; hard, firm; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P01551
    C3—71 to 152 centimeters (28.0 to 59.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; fragments; violent effervescence; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 89P01552