IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muscotah
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2002NE055007
  • User Pedon ID: S2002NE055007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 04N0507
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 16902
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 41.3743324
  • Std. Longitude: -96.3071442
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16 N.
  • Range: 10 E.
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: 1710 feet South and 1,190 feet east of the Northwest corner
  • Map Unit: Wb—Wabash silt loam
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE055—Douglas
  • MLRA: 102C—Loess Uplands
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE602—Douglas and Sarpy Counties, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41096-C3—Valley, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Z. Rigg
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Cumulic Vertic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Muscotah
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/20/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wabash
  • Classificaton Date - 11/22/2002
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium
  • Landform: flood plain on river valley
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/22/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: old 3
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior, dry; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly acid, pH 6.2, bromthymol blue; clear boundary. Lab sample # 04N02963; moist when described; observed in push tube
    A1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) exterior, dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior, dry; silty clay; 42 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly acid, pH 6.4, bromthymol blue; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 04N02964; moist when described; observed in push tube
    A2—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); black (N 2.5/0) exterior, very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) exterior, dry; silty clay; 55 percent clay; moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 7.0 fine roots between peds; 5.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 75 percent faint pressure faces on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 04N02965; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bg1—71 to 104 centimeters (28.0 to 40.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior, dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) exterior, dry; silty clay; 48 percent clay; weak very fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 9.0 fine roots between peds; 5.0 fine dendritic tubular pores; 50 percent faint black (N 2.5/0), moist, pressure faces on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct irregular light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), dry, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red; clear boundary. Lab sample # 04N02966; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bg2—104 to 124 centimeters (40.9 to 48.8 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) exterior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior, dry; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 15.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, cresol red; clear boundary. Lab sample # 04N02967; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bg3—124 to 170 centimeters (48.8 to 66.9 inches); black (2.5Y 2.5/1) exterior, gray (2.5Y 5/1) exterior, dry; silty clay; 42 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic, and moderate medium prismatic structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine roots between peds; 5.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 28 percent faint black (N 2.5/0), moist, pressure faces on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, cresol red; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 04N02968; moist when described; observed in push tube
    Bg4—170 to 228 centimeters (66.9 to 89.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior, gray (7.5YR 5/1) exterior, dry; clay; 55 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 fine roots between peds; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 90 percent prominent black (N 2.5/0), moist, pressure faces on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, cresol red; clear boundary. Lab sample # 04N02969; observed in push tube. Striations on vertical pressure faces.
    Bg5—228 to 248 centimeters (89.8 to 97.6 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior, gray (10YR 5/1) exterior, dry; clay; 55 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 fine roots between peds; 2.0 very fine dendritic tubular pores; 25 percent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine prominent irregular yellow (10YR 7/8), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7, cresol red. Lab sample # 04N02970; moist when described; observed in push tube