IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Holder
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2016NE001100
  • User Pedon ID: S2016NE001100
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 17N0459
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 87679
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 40.3895500
  • Std. Longitude: -98.5581400
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5 N
  • Range: 11 W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: northeast corner
  • Location Description: Soil Characterization site for new OSD for Holder Series
  • Map Unit: 3885—Holder silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE001—Adams
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE001—Adams County, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Latta, R. Ragsdale, J. Anderson, B. Neste, B. Evans,
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Udic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Holder (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Udic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 31 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/3/2016
  • Classifier - B. Evans
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 133 cm of depth to secondary carbonates


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/3/2016 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: C. Latta, R. Ragsdale, J. Anderson, B. Nestor, B. Evans
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—31

    31—90

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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

    2

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 17N02392; observed in trench
    A—15 to 31 centimeters (5.9 to 12.2 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02393; observed in trench
    Bt1—31 to 53 centimeters (12.2 to 20.9 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 40 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02394; observed in trench
    Bt2—53 to 73 centimeters (20.9 to 28.7 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02395; observed in trench
    Bt3—73 to 90 centimeters (28.7 to 35.4 inches);, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02396; observed in trench
    BC—90 to 133 centimeters (35.4 to 52.4 inches);, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02397; observed in trench
    BCk1—133 to 153 centimeters (52.4 to 60.2 inches);, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; ; 2 percent medium distinct manganese masses and 8 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 17N02398; observed in trench
    BCk2—153 to 200 centimeters (60.2 to 78.7 inches);, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), moist; silt loam; 16 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4 percent fine distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent carbonate, finely disseminated; fragments; strong effervescence.; observed in trench