IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nora
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2014NE053003B
  • User Pedon ID: S2014NE053003B
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0054
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79496
  • User Project ID: FY2015-QTR1-P500
  • Project Name: MLRA 102C - DSP/Characterization Data Project Moody, Nora, Crofton and Alcester (FY15-16)
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 41.6496720
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4658430
  • 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 Udic 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 - Nora silty clay loam, 6 to 11 percent slopes, eroded
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/27/2016
  • Classifier - Jackson, Grant
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: calcareous loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/15/2014 (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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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silty clay loam; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 15N00606, 15N00607; observed in push tube
    Bw1—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 15N00608; observed in push tube
    Bw2—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 15N00609; observed in push tube
    Bk—61 to 103 centimeters (24.0 to 40.6 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; 2 percent very fine faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese concretions and 2 percent very fine distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 3 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence.; observed in push tube
    C—103 to 115 centimeters (40.6 to 45.3 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; 5 percent fine distinct gray (10YR 6/1), moist, iron depletions and 30 percent medium prominent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; slight effervescence.; observed in push tube