IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Saltillo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2008NE109002
  • User Pedon ID: S2008NE109002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S08NE109002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 08N0815
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20313
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 41.0449444
  • Std. Longitude: -96.5798611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 N
  • Range: 7 E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 160 feet south and 570 feet east of NW corner
  • Location Description: Rock Creek east of Ceresco
  • Map Unit: 7067—Saltillo silt loam, occasionally flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE109—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE109—Lancaster County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41096-A5—Wahoo SE, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Kohake and M. Blacksmith
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, calcareous, mesic Typic Halaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Saltillo
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Saltillo
  • Classificaton Date - 7/29/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/29/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    DISTI

    EUMA8

    HOJU

    PHAR3

    TYPHA

    Distichlis

    Euphorbia marginata

    Hordeum jubatum

    Phalaris arundinacea

    Typha

    saltgrass

    snow on the mountain

    foxtail barley

    reed canarygrass

    cattail

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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

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    Anz1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; ; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 08N04982; observed in shovel slice
    Anz2—18 to 40 centimeters (7.1 to 15.7 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 1 percent salt crystals; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 08N04983; observed in shovel slice
    Bnzg1—40 to 65 centimeters (15.7 to 25.6 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 1 percent salt crystals; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 08N04984; observed in auger, bucket
    Bnzg2—65 to 88 centimeters (25.6 to 34.6 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 08N04985; observed in auger, bucket
    Bnzg3—88 to 116 centimeters (34.6 to 45.7 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 08N04986; observed in auger, bucket
    Ab—116 to 152 centimeters (45.7 to 59.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; 24 percent clay; massive; 1 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 08N04987; observed in auger, bucket