IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alcester
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2014NE053001
  • User Pedon ID: S2014NE053001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0046
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79488
  • User Project ID: FY2015-QTR1-P500
  • Project Name: MLRA 102C - DSP/Characterization Data Project Moody, Nora, Crofton and Alcester (FY15-16)
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 41.6486800
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4656000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE053—Dodge
  • MLRA: 102C—Loess Uplands
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE053—Dodge County, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jackson, Grant
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: technical soil services
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alcester silty clay loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/2016
  • Classifier - Jackson, Grant
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium and/or colluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/16/2014 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Jackson, Grant
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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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    4

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    A1—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; many very fine roots throughout and many fine roots throughout; few fine irregular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N00569, 15N00570; observed in push tube
    A2—23 to 56 centimeters (9.1 to 22.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; common very fine roots throughout; common fine irregular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N00571; observed in push tube
    Bw1—56 to 85 centimeters (22.0 to 33.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; few very fine roots throughout; common fine irregular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N00572; observed in push tube
    Bw2—85 to 120 centimeters (33.5 to 47.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; few very fine roots throughout; common fine irregular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N00573; observed in push tube
    Bw3—120 to 230 centimeters (47.2 to 90.6 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; few very fine roots throughout; common fine irregular pores; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 15N00574; observed in push tube