IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wood River
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1951NE079011
  • User Pedon ID: S1951NE079011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2252
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36399
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 40.9488907
  • Std. Longitude: -98.5919418
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: About 900 feet north and 100 feet east of southwest corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE079—Hall
  • MLRA: 71—Central Nebraska Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE079—Hall County, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B.H. Williams
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 11
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wood River
  • PSC - 46 to 96 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hall
  • Classificaton Date - 10/10/1951
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/10/1951 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
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    A1p—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; fine granular structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17677
    A12—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A17678
    AB—46 to 53 centimeters (18.1 to 20.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; fine and medium angular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17679. this is a kind of B1 in which there is incipient graying along the structure planes as in an A2 horizon
    B2—53 to 81 centimeters (20.9 to 31.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17680
    B3—81 to 104 centimeters (31.9 to 40.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silt loam; weak angular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17681
    C1—104 to 142 centimeters (40.9 to 55.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A17682
    C2—142 to 157 centimeters (55.9 to 61.8 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silt loam; massive; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17683. this is a dark sedimentary layer or the A1 of a former weakly developed soil