IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Malcolm
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2013NE097014
  • User Pedon ID: S2013NE097014
  • 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: 40.3645000
  • Std. Longitude: -96.2877500
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5 N
  • Range: 10 E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: southwest corner
  • Location Description: Fritsch
  • 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-C2—Tecumseh, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Latta
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Malcolm
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/3/2013
  • Classifier - C. Latta
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty glaciolacustrine deposits over calcareous coarse-silty glaciolacustrine deposits
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/21/2013 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: C. Latta
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—47

    47—92

    78—230

    —47—

    —45—

    —152—
    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

    15

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    315

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    A1—0 to 31 centimeters (0.0 to 12.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; moderate very fine granular parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments.; observed in push tube
    A2—31 to 47 centimeters (12.2 to 18.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments.; observed in push tube
    Bw1—47 to 78 centimeters (18.5 to 30.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments.; observed in push tube
    2Bw2—78 to 92 centimeters (30.7 to 36.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments.; observed in push tube
    2C1—92 to 127 centimeters (36.2 to 50.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; massive; very hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent fine dendritic carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified.; observed in push tube
    2C2—127 to 161 centimeters (50.0 to 63.4 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; massive; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent fine dendritic carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified.; observed in push tube
    2C3—161 to 191 centimeters (63.4 to 75.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; massive; hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent fine dendritic carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified.; observed in push tube
    2C4—191 to 230 centimeters (75.2 to 90.6 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; massive; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent fine dendritic carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified.; observed in push tube