IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hastings
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1978NE081007
  • User Pedon ID: 1978NE081007
  • User Site Association ID: NE081-TUDS
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0412
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45966
  • 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: 40.7271944
  • Std. Longitude: -98.1121944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9 N
  • Range: 7 W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 100 feet south and 200 feet west of the NE corner
  • Map Unit: Hc—Hastings silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes3864—Hastings silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE081—Hamilton
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE081—Hamilton County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40098-F1—Harvard NE, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Robert S. Pollock and Charles Morris
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Udic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hastings
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/9/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hastings
  • Classificaton Date - 4/26/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/26/1978 (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—38

    38—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

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary.
    BA—30 to 38 centimeters (11.8 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear smooth boundary.
    BC—64 to 71 centimeters (25.2 to 28.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary.
    C1—71 to 140 centimeters (28.0 to 55.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; massive; soft, very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary.
    C2—140 to 152 centimeters (55.1 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silt loam; massive; soft, very friable; fragments; slight effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9.