IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crete
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1979NE059009
  • User Pedon ID: 1979NE059009
  • User Site Association ID: NE059-TUDS
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 79P0419
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 47152
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • 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: 40.4025833
  • Std. Longitude: -97.7483056
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5N
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 2,110 feet south and 100 feet west of the NE corner
  • Map Unit: Ce—Crete silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes3824—Crete silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE059—Fillmore
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE059—Fillmore County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40097-D6—Shickley, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Marvin Dixon and Robert S. Pollock
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Udertic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1979
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1979 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    redox concentrations

    0—61

    30—84

    84—152

    84—152

    —61—

    —54—

    —68—

    —68—
    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

    1

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    507

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; hard, very friable; few (0.5) fine roots; 10 percent worm casts; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02259
    A—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; hard, very friable; few (0.5) fine roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02260. moderately acid (described as medium acid); original description described few fine roots and common worm casts
    Bt1—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky; few (0.5) fine roots; 25 percent slickensides (pedogenic) on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02261
    Bt2—41 to 61 centimeters (16.1 to 24.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky; few (0.5) very fine roots; 25 percent clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 79P02262
    Bt3—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to strong medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky; few (0.5) very fine roots; 25 percent clay films; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.7; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P02263
    BC—84 to 109 centimeters (33.1 to 42.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; few (0.5) very fine roots; 1 percent medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P02264
    C1—109 to 122 centimeters (42.9 to 48.0 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable; 25 percent medium distinct reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 79P02265
    C2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; massive; slightly hard, very friable; 25 percent medium distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 10 percent fine carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2. Lab sample # 79P02266