IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Massie
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012NE137001
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NE137001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 40.4540278
  • Std. Longitude: -97.7299444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5 N
  • Range: 19 W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 250 feet north and 300 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Atlanta WMP Satelite sampled
  • Map Unit: 3731—Massie silty clay loam, frequently ponded
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE137—Phelps
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-LIN—Lincoln, Nebraska
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE137—Phelps County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40099-D4—Holdrege West, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Latta
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Argiaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Massie
  • PSC - 3 to 53 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/31/2012
  • Classifier - B. Evans
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Massie
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Argialbolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 10/3/2012
  • Classifier - C. Latta
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: depression
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: frequent ponding for very long periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/3/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: C. Latta
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    histic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    mollic epipedon

    0—3

    3—170

    3—123

    —3—

    —167—

    —120—
    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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    O—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); fragments.; observed in push tube
    Bt1—3 to 26 centimeters (1.2 to 10.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments.; observed in push tube
    Bt2—26 to 64 centimeters (10.2 to 25.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments.; observed in push tube
    Bt3—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); fragments.; observed in push tube
    Bt4—91 to 123 centimeters (35.8 to 48.4 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic); fragments.; observed in push tube
    Bt5—123 to 154 centimeters (48.4 to 60.6 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay; strong coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments.; observed in push tube
    Bt6—154 to 170 centimeters (60.6 to 66.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments.; observed in push tube
    BC—170 to 185 centimeters (66.9 to 72.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments.; observed in push tube
    C—185 to 239 centimeters (72.8 to 94.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments.; observed in push tube