IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kennebec
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1973NE109003
  • User Pedon ID: 1973NE109003
  • User Site Association ID: NE109-TUDS
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2124
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36280
  • Print Date: 4/29/2024

    • 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: 40.7198889
  • Std. Longitude: -96.7023333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9 N
  • Range: 6 E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 2,380 feet south and 400 feet west of the NE corner
  • Map Unit: Ke—Kennebec silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes7050—Kennebec silt loam, occasionally flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE109—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE109—Lancaster County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40096-F6—Roca, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Loyal A. Quandt
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kennebec
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/9/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kennebec
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    0—152

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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

    0

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    360

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; hard, friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary.
    A1—25 to 48 centimeters (9.8 to 18.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; hard, friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7; clear smooth boundary.
    A2—48 to 114 centimeters (18.9 to 44.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary.
    A3—114 to 142 centimeters (44.9 to 55.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual smooth boundary.
    AC—142 to 183 centimeters (55.9 to 72.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2.
    C—183 to 244 centimeters (72.0 to 96.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), gray (10YR 5/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3. Lab sample # 40A16830