IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Uly
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019NE041004A
  • User Pedon ID: S2019NE041004A
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 20N0179
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 17 N
  • Range: 20 W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: southeast corner
  • Map Unit: 2543—Coly silt loam, 11 to 17 percent slopes, eroded, cool
  • 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
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • 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: 9/10/2019 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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—21

    21—64

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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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    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 # 20N00661
    A2—5 to 21 centimeters (2.0 to 8.3 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; fragments. Lab sample # 20N00662
    Bw1—21 to 53 centimeters (8.3 to 20.9 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; fragments. Lab sample # 20N00663
    Bw2—53 to 64 centimeters (20.9 to 25.2 inches);, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; fragments.
    Bk—64 to 114 centimeters (25.2 to 44.9 inches);, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; fragments; strong effervescence.
    C—114 to 200 centimeters (44.9 to 78.7 inches);, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; fragments; strong effervescence.