IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Edalgo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015NE067500
  • User Pedon ID: S2015NE067500
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2015NE067500
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N0186
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82546
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 40.3899000
  • Std. Longitude: 96.8678900
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1 N.
  • Range: 5 E.
  • Section: 21
  • Map Unit: 3856—Edalgo silty clay loam, 11 to 20 percent slopes
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE067—Gage
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-LIN—Lincoln, Nebraska
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE067—Gage County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40096-A7—Odell, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Nester, D. Kohake, B. Evans, C. Latta
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Udic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Edalgo
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, active, mesic Udic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/2015
  • Classifier - D. Kohake
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium over residuum weathered from clayey shale over residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Ksat Class Upper: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent sandstone, unspecified at 142cm
  • Geology: Dakota formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R074XY107KS Clay Hills

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/26/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: D. Kohake, B. Nester, B. Evans, C. Latta
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    AMPS

    ANGE

    ARLU

    EUMA8

    PAVI2

    Ambrosia psilostachya

    Andropogon gerardii

    Artemisia ludoviciana

    Euphorbia marginata

    Panicum virgatum

    Cuman ragweed

    big bluestem

    white sagebrush

    snow on the mountain

    switchgrass

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    paralithic contact

    0—36

    10—86

    55—86

    142—

    —36—

    —76—

    —31—

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    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

    10

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    423

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    315

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; many (5.0) medium roots throughout and many (6.0) fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 5-10-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 16N00531
    Bt1—10 to 36 centimeters (3.9 to 14.2 inches); 60 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), 60 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) and 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; moderately few (5.0) medium roots throughout and many (6.0) fine roots throughout; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded moderately coherent cemented 5-10-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N00532
    Bt2—36 to 55 centimeters (14.2 to 21.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8), dark brown (10YR 3/3) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist; clay loam; 35 percent clay; 3 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine prominent and 3 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/8) fine prominent mottles; moderate coarse prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; common (3.0) medium roots throughout and common (3.0) fine roots throughout; 25 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), dry, manganese masses; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N00533
    2Btk—55 to 86 centimeters (21.7 to 33.9 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), gray (10YR 6/1) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist; clay; 40 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; common (1.0) fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 10 percent coarse prominent noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N00534
    2C1—86 to 120 centimeters (33.9 to 47.2 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) and reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and red (2.5YR 4/6), moist; clay; 42 percent clay; structureless massive; common (1.0) fine roots between peds; 25 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent coarse prominent noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N00535
    2C2—120 to 142 centimeters (47.2 to 55.9 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; clay; 40 percent clay; structureless massive; common (1.0) medium roots throughout and common (3.0) fine roots between peds; 25 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent noncoherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 16N00536
    3Cr—142 centimeters (55.9 inches); white (10YR 8/1) and yellow (10YR 8/8), yellow (10YR 7/8) and light gray (10YR 7/2), moist; bedrock; structureless massive; fragments. Lab sample # 16N00537