IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Malcolm
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013NE097007
  • User Pedon ID: S2013NE097007
  • 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: 40.3630000
  • Std. Longitude: -96.2884722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5 N
  • Range: 10 E
  • Section: 34
  • PLSS Details: northwest corner
  • Map Unit: 7299—Malcolm silt loam, 11 to 25 percent slopes
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE097—Johnson
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE097—Johnson County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40096-C3—Vesta, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. Baldwin
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Malcolm
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/9/2013
  • Classifier - A. Baldwin
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty glaciolacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/9/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: A. Baldwin
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - pastureland, tame
  • 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—30

    30—100

    —30—

    —70—
    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

    6

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    45

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    A1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; noneffervescent.; observed in push tube
    A2—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; noneffervescent.; observed in push tube
    Bt1—30 to 40 centimeters (11.8 to 15.7 inches); 10Y 4/3 (10Y 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; noneffervescent.; observed in push tube
    Bt2—40 to 65 centimeters (15.7 to 25.6 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; noneffervescent.; observed in push tube
    Bt3—65 to 86 centimeters (25.6 to 33.9 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; noneffervescent.; observed in push tube
    Bt4—86 to 100 centimeters (33.9 to 39.4 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified.; observed in push tube
    BC—100 to 127 centimeters (39.4 to 50.0 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) silt loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified.; observed in push tube