IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Littlesalt
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2010NE025006
  • User Pedon ID: S2010NE025006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 10N0846
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 24784
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 40.9965000
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4428611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 N
  • Range: 9 E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 1250 feet south and 528 feet east of the NW corner
  • Map Unit: 4101—Littlesalt silty clay loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE025—Cass
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE025—Cass County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40096-H4—Greenwood, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Kohake
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Natrudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Littlesalt
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/7/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Littlesalt
  • Classificaton Date - 4/16/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: riser
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/16/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 16
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—35

    35—125

    54—200

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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

    4

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    335

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; moderately hard, firm; 5 percent by volume 2-5-20 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, pH meter. Lab sample # 10N04143; observed in auger, bucket
    Btnz—15 to 44 centimeters (5.9 to 17.3 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; silty clay; 43 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 1 percent salt, finely disseminated; 5 percent by volume 2-5-20 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, pH meter. Lab sample # 10N04144; observed in auger, bucket
    Btknz1—44 to 72 centimeters (17.3 to 28.3 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; silty clay; 40 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 1 percent salt, finely disseminated and 1 percent medium prominent carbonate concretions; 5 percent by volume 2-5-20 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 9.0, pH meter. Lab sample # 10N04145; observed in auger, bucket
    Btknz2—72 to 102 centimeters (28.3 to 40.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; silty clay loam; 37 percent clay; 10 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium prominent mottles; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 10 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) masses of reduced iron; 1 percent salt, finely disseminated and 1 percent coarse prominent carbonate concretions and 1 percent very coarse prominent carbonate concretions; 5 percent by volume 2-5-20 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; very strongly alkaline, pH 9.1, pH meter. Lab sample # 10N04146; observed in auger, bucket
    BC—102 to 125 centimeters (40.2 to 49.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; 10 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium prominent mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 25 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) masses of reduced iron; 1 percent very coarse prominent carbonate concretions; 5 percent by volume 2-5-20 millimeter mixed fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, pH meter. Lab sample # 10N04147; observed in auger, bucket
    C—125 to 200 centimeters (49.2 to 78.7 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; 10 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) medium prominent mottles; massive; moderately hard, firm; 25 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) masses of reduced iron; 1 percent coarse prominent carbonate concretions; 5 percent by volume 2-5-20 millimeter mixed fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; strongly alkaline, pH 8.6, pH meter. Lab sample # 10N04148; observed in auger, bucket