IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pawnee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1992NE133001
  • User Pedon ID: 1992NE133001
  • User Site Association ID: NE133-TUDS
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2298
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36995
  • 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: 40.1741667
  • Std. Longitude: -96.1486111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2 N
  • Range: 11 E
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 350 feet south and 1,885 feet west of the NE corner
  • Location Description: about 4 miles north of Pawnee City, NE.
  • Map Unit: PaC—Pawnee loam, 3 to 9 percent slopes7514—Pawnee loam, 3 to 11 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE133—Pawnee
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE133—Pawnee County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40096-B2—Steinauer, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. Sautter
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Pawnee (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/7/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pawnee
  • Classificaton Date - 9/12/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/12/1958 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown 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

    redox concentrations

    argillic horizon

    0—36

    25—152

    36—114

    —36—

    —127—

    —78—
    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

    —

    —

    372

    —

    315

    864

    —

    —

    12

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear smooth boundary.
    AB—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), dry; clay loam; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable; 1 percent fine distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bt1—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4), dry; clay; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 1 percent fine distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bt2—61 to 81 centimeters (24.0 to 31.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; clay; weak coarse angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 10 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, and reddish brown (5YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; gradual smooth boundary.
    Bt3—81 to 114 centimeters (31.9 to 44.9 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), dry; clay; weak coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 25 percent medium distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 25 percent medium distinct brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9; gradual smooth boundary.
    BCk—114 to 135 centimeters (44.9 to 53.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and 10YR 4/8 (10YR 4/8), dry; clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 25 percent medium distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0; clear smooth boundary.
    C—135 to 160 centimeters (53.1 to 63.0 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), dry; clay loam; moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; hard, firm; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 25 percent coarse faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1.