IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Yutan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990NE155005
  • User Pedon ID: 90NE155005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0642
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62575
  • 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: 41.2900009
  • Std. Longitude: -96.7047195
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15N
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 1680 feet W and 1200 feet S of the NE corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE155—Saunders
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S.L. Hartung and R.D. Gross.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Yutan
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Yutan
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Argiudoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1990 (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—18

    15—51

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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

    8

    408

    225

    71

    11

    10

    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; 2.5 fine and medium tubular pores; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, hellige-truog; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03820. clay estimate - 38%; common fine and medium roots throughout
    Bw1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silty clay loam; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) faint and 1 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03821. clay estimate - 34%; common fine roots throughout; few fine distinct 2.5Y52 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 233530; continuous - phpvsfiid 233530
    Bw2—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; silty clay loam; strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) prominent and 1 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; clay films on faces of peds; 11 percent fine and medium irregular iron-manganese masses and 11 percent fine and medium irregular iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03822. gray mottles (2.5Y) are interior, while (7.5YR) are exterior mottles; clay estimate - 34%; common fine and medium soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; common fine and medium iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few fine roots throughout; few fine faint 2.5Y52 mottles; continuous - phpvsfiid 233531; continuous - phpvsfiid 233531
    BC—51 to 99 centimeters (20.1 to 39.0 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), 50 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) and 50 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine and medium irregular iron-manganese masses and 11 percent fine and medium irregular iron-manganese concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03823. clay estimate - 30%; common fine and medium soft masses of iron-manganese concentrations; common fine and medium iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few fine roots throughout
    C—99 to 152 centimeters (39.0 to 59.8 inches); 30 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and 70 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), 30 percent light gray (2.5Y 7/2) and 70 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), dry; silt loam; massive; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine and medium irregular iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 90P03824. clay estimate - 25%; common fine and medium iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few fine roots throughout