IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Saltillo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009NE109001
  • User Pedon ID: S2009NE109001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2009NE109001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0123
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23954
  • 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: 40.9014435
  • Std. Longitude: -96.6778336
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: SW1/4 of the SW1/4
  • Map Unit: 7016—Salmo silty clay loam, channeled, frequently 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: 40096-H6—Davey, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Kohake
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Halaquepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Saltillo
  • Classificaton Date - 6/16/2009
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Saltillo
  • Classificaton Date - 10/29/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: salt marsh
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for long periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/29/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - marshland
  • 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

    DISP

    PHAR3

    Distichlis spicata

    Phalaris arundinacea

    saltgrass

    reed canarygrass

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    salt accumulations

    ochric epipedon

    0—125

    0—20

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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

    0

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    346

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    Anz—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; 1 percent fine gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, salt masses; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N00860
    Bnz1—20 to 48 centimeters (7.9 to 18.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; 1 percent fine gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, salt masses; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N00861
    Bnz2—48 to 80 centimeters (18.9 to 31.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; 10 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent fine gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, salt masses; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N00862
    Anzb—80 to 125 centimeters (31.5 to 49.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silty clay loam; 1 percent fine gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, salt masses; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 09N00863