IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hastings
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 93NE159010
  • User Pedon ID: 93NE159010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0100
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66288
  • 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: 40.8013878
  • Std. Longitude: -97.1399994
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 640 feet north and 200 feet west of the southeast corner
  • Map Unit: 3864—Hastings silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE159—Seward
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE159—Seward County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40097-G2—Goehner, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steve Scheinost, A. Tyler Labenz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hastings
  • PSC - 33 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/2013
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hastings
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 11/17/1993
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/17/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 31
  • 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

    mottles with chroma 2 or less

    0—56

    33—127

    94—152

    —56—

    —94—

    —58—
    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

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    315

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00730
    AB—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00731
    Bt1—33 to 56 centimeters (13.0 to 22.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay; 34 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent faint very dark brown (10YR 2/2) organic stains on all faces of peds and 60 percent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P00732. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1134109; patchy - phpvsfiid 1134110; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1134109; patchy - phpvsfiid 1134110
    Bt2—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay; 34 percent clay; 1 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) fine distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 20 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) organic stains on all faces of peds and 60 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1134111; patchy - phpvsfiid 1134112; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1134111; patchy - phpvsfiid 1134112
    Bt3—71 to 94 centimeters (28.0 to 37.0 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; 1 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) fine distinct mottles; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. patchy - phpvsfiid 1134113; patchy - phpvsfiid 1134113
    Bt4—94 to 127 centimeters (37.0 to 50.0 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; 9 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine prominent and 9 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine and medium prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 30 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. patchy - phpvsfiid 1134114; patchy - phpvsfiid 1134114
    BC—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; 9 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) fine prominent and 9 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) fine and medium prominent mottles; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; 1.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 60 percent pressure faces on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine irregular iron-manganese masses; 9 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses and 1 percent fine and medium irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1134115; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 1134115