IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Massie
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2012NE185001
  • User Pedon ID: S2012NE185001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • 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: 41.0295000
  • Std. Longitude: -97.7020278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 N
  • Range: 3 W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: northeast corner
  • Location Description: Renquist Basin WMA Satellite saampled
  • Map Unit: 3731—Massie silty clay loam, frequently ponded
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE185—York
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE185—York County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41097-A6—Durant, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Latta
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Argialbolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Massie
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Argialbolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 9 to 59 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/21/2012
  • Classifier - C. Latta
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: yes


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: closed 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: 9/21/2012 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: C. Latta
  • Air Photo ID: 2
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—90

    9—110

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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
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    A—0 to 9 centimeters (0.0 to 3.5 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; 1 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments.; observed in push tube
    Btg1—9 to 32 centimeters (3.5 to 12.6 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; 6 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments.; observed in push tube
    Btg2—32 to 47 centimeters (12.6 to 18.5 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; 6 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments.; observed in push tube
    Btg3—47 to 90 centimeters (18.5 to 35.4 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; 6 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments.; observed in push tube
    Btg4—90 to 110 centimeters (35.4 to 43.3 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay; strong medium subangular blocky structure; 1 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments.; observed in push tube
    BC—110 to 138 centimeters (43.3 to 54.3 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; 1 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments.; observed in push tube
    C1—138 to 165 centimeters (54.3 to 65.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; 25 percent clay; massive; 22 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments.; observed in push tube
    C2—165 to 196 centimeters (65.0 to 77.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) silt loam; massive; 10 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments.; observed in push tube