IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Salmo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009NE109003
  • User Pedon ID: S2009NE109003
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2009NE109003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0125
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23956
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 40.8999710
  • Std. Longitude: -96.6789703
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4 of the NW1/4
  • Map Unit: 7017—Salmo silty clay 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: 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: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Salmo
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Halaquepts
  • Classificaton Date - 10/29/2008
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief 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 - 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

    BRIN2

    DISP

    PASM

    Bromus inermis

    Distichlis spicata

    Pascopyrum smithii

    smooth brome

    saltgrass

    western wheatgrass

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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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    345

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    Az—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 # 09N00868
    Bz—20 to 42 centimeters (7.9 to 16.5 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 # 09N00869
    Azb1—42 to 72 centimeters (16.5 to 28.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silt loam; 1 percent fine gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, salt masses; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N00870
    Azb2—72 to 110 centimeters (28.3 to 43.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silt loam; 1 percent fine gray (2.5Y 6/1), moist, salt masses; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 09N00871