IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morrill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1958NE155002
  • User Pedon ID: 1958NE155002
  • User Site Association ID: NE155-TUDS
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2293
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36990
  • 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: 41.0891667
  • Std. Longitude: -96.7258333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13 N
  • Range: 6 E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 40 feet north and 160 feet east of the SW corner of the SE quarter
  • Location Description: approximately 2 miles north and 4 miles west of Ceresco.
  • Map Unit: MrC2—Morrill clay loam, 6 to 12 percent slopes, eroded7422—Morrill clay loam, 6 to 11 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE155—Saunders
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE155—Saunders County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41096-A6—Ceresco, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W.E. McKinzie and J.A. Elder
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Morrill
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/8/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morrill
  • Classificaton Date - 8/8/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/8/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • 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—30

    30—102

    —30—

    —72—
    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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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear smooth boundary.
    AB—23 to 30 centimeters (9.1 to 11.8 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear wavy boundary.
    Bt1—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bt2—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bt3—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dry; sandy clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; gradual smooth boundary.
    C1—102 to 130 centimeters (40.2 to 51.2 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6), dry; fine sandy loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary.
    C2—130 to 152 centimeters (51.2 to 59.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), dry; coarse sandy loam; massive; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0.