IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muir
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S10NE151002
  • User Pedon ID: S10NE151002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0136
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 25110
  • 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: 40.6915000
  • Std. Longitude: -97.0211389
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4 of the NW1/4
  • Map Unit: 3775—Muir silt loam, rarely flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE151—Saline
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE151—Saline County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40097-F1—Dorchester, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Kohake and C. Latta
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muir
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/10/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muir
  • Classificaton Date - 11/5/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: rare flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/5/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown 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

    0—40

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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

    3

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    135

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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—5 to 16 centimeters (2.0 to 6.3 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    A1—16 to 32 centimeters (6.3 to 12.6 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to strong medium granular structure; fragments.; observed in pit, small
    A2—32 to 40 centimeters (12.6 to 15.7 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), moist; silt loam; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; fragments.; observed in pit, small