IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crete
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 93NE129001
  • User Pedon ID: 93NE129001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0106
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66294
  • 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: 40.1527786
  • Std. Longitude: -97.8686142
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 2480 feet E and 1250 feet N, SW corner
  • Map Unit: Cr—Crete silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes3824—Crete silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE129—Nuckolls
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE129—Nuckolls County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40097-B7—Ruskin, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Rayer
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Udertic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • PSC - 30 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/11/2013
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, nonacid, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 12/3/1993
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/3/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 27
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—64

    43—81

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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

    1

    259

    76.2

    514

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; 7 percent sand; 25 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00755; moist when described;
    A—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; 7 percent sand; 23 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; hard, friable; moderate permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00756; moist when described;
    BA—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silty clay; 4 percent sand; 40 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; moderately slow permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00757; moist when described;
    Bt1—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; silty clay; 4 percent sand; 48 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to strong medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; slow permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00758; moist when described;
    Bt2—64 to 81 centimeters (25.2 to 31.9 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, moist; silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; slow permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    BC—81 to 114 centimeters (31.9 to 44.9 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; moderately slow permeability; 5 percent fine threadlike noncoherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate threads between peds; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;
    C—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, moist; silt loam; 10 percent olive yellow (2.5Y 6/6) fine and medium distinct spherical mottles; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; 5 percent fine and medium threadlike noncoherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2) carbonate threads between peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified.; moist when described;