IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Uly
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019NE041002A
  • User Pedon ID: S2019NE041002A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0173
  • Print Date: 12/10/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 13 N
  • Range: 25 W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: southwest corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE041—Custer
  • MLRA: 71—Central Nebraska Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE041—Custer County, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Latta
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Uly
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/26/2019
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/8/2019 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—22

    22—46

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    —24—
    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

    7

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    270

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; fragments. Lab sample # 20N00638; observed in push tube
    A2—5 to 22 centimeters (2.0 to 8.7 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; fragments. Lab sample # 20N00639; observed in push tube
    Bw—22 to 46 centimeters (8.7 to 18.1 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 20N00640; observed in push tube
    BC—46 to 68 centimeters (18.1 to 26.8 inches);, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 20N00641; observed in push tube
    C—68 to 200 centimeters (26.8 to 78.7 inches);, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist; silt loam; massive; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified.; observed in push tube