IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pawnee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2006NE109100
  • User Pedon ID: S2006NE109100
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0111
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19050
  • 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: 40.6959724
  • Std. Longitude: -96.8552246
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 158 meters east and 190 meters south of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: 7503—Pawnee clay loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes, eroded
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE109—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE109—Lancaster County, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Art Voigtlander
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 100
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pawnee
  • PSC - 32 to 82 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/15/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pawnee
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/6/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    slickensides

    0—32

    32—117

    58—117

    —32—

    —85—

    —59—
    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

    5

    —

    —

    —

    —

    90

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    Linc11SW

    Audobon Society Spring Creek Prairie

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 07N00696; observed in pit, small. gravel - 1%
    AB—18 to 32 centimeters (7.1 to 12.6 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 07N00697; observed in pit, small. gravel - 1%
    Bt1—32 to 58 centimeters (12.6 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent fine prominent irregular yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 07N00698; observed in pit, small. gravel - 2%
    Btss—58 to 90 centimeters (22.8 to 35.4 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 15 percent prominent slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 07N00699; observed in pit, small. gravel - 2%; patchy - phpvsfiid 367143; patchy - phpvsfiid 367143
    Btkss—90 to 117 centimeters (35.4 to 46.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) clay; moderate coarse prismatic structure; very firm; 15 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout and 10 percent medium prominent irregular grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions throughout; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 07N00700; observed in pit, small. gravel - 2%; patchy - phpvsfiid 367144; patchy - phpvsfiid 367144
    Bk1—117 to 150 centimeters (46.1 to 59.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 5 percent fine prominent irregular yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout and 15 percent medium prominent irregular pale red (2.5YR 6/2) iron depletions throughout and 15 percent medium prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; 15 percent very coarse prominent irregular carbonate masses between peds; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 07N00701; observed in pit, small
    Bk2—150 to 200 centimeters (59.1 to 78.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; 5 percent fine prominent irregular very dark gray (10YR 3/1) manganese coatings on faces of peds and 15 percent medium prominent irregular pale red (2.5YR 6/2) iron depletions throughout and 20 percent coarse prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron throughout; 15 percent very coarse prominent irregular white (2.5YR 8/1) carbonate masses between peds; fragments; violent effervescence. Lab sample # 07N00702; observed in pit, small