IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nora
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2014NE053006A
  • User Pedon ID: S2014NE053006A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0467
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79628
  • User Project ID: FY2015-QTR1-P500
  • Project Name: MLRA 102C - DSP/Characterization Data Project Moody, Nora, Crofton and Alcester (FY15-16)
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 41.6519780
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4688030
  • 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: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/25/2014 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Jackson, Grant
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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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    Ap—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silty clay loam; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 15N00596, 15N00597; observed in push tube
    Bw—19 to 55 centimeters (7.5 to 21.7 inches);, dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist; silty clay loam; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 15N00598; observed in push tube
    Bk1—55 to 98 centimeters (21.7 to 38.6 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; 5 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent very fine distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 3 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 15N00599; observed in push tube
    Bk2—98 to 135 centimeters (38.6 to 53.1 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; 3 percent very fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese concretions and 3 percent very fine distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 3 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 15N00600; observed in push tube
    BC—135 to 180 centimeters (53.1 to 70.9 inches);, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), 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 (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 1 percent fine carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 15N00601; observed in push tube
    C—180 to 200 centimeters (70.9 to 78.7 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; 1 percent very fine faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron-manganese concretions and 1 percent very fine distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, iron depletions; 1 percent fine carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 15N00602; observed in push tube