IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aksarben
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 54NE025002
  • User Pedon ID: 54NE025002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2305
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37002
  • 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: 40.8858337
  • Std. Longitude: -96.3375015
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: .3 mile west and 200 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: 1 mile north and 2 3/4 miles east of Alvo, Nebraska.
  • Map Unit: 7206—Aksarben silty clay loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE025—Cass
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE025—Cass County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40096-H3—Murdock, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B.H. Williams
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Aksarben
  • PSC - 53 to 103 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/28/2013
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sharpsburg
  • Classificaton Date - 4/4/1954
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/4/1954 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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—53

    53—114

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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

    3

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; silty clay loam; 2 percent sand; 27 percent clay; moderate very fine granular structure; soft, friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A18066
    A—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silty clay loam; 3 percent sand; 32 percent clay; strong fine granular structure; soft, friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A18067
    AB—28 to 36 centimeters (11.0 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silty clay loam; 2 percent sand; 36 percent clay; weak coarse angular blocky parts to moderate and strong fine granular parts to very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A18068
    BA—36 to 53 centimeters (14.2 to 20.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), brown (10YR 4/3), dry; silty clay loam; 2 percent sand; 39 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to coarse angular blocky parts to strong very fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A18069
    Bt1—53 to 76 centimeters (20.9 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; silty clay; 2 percent sand; 42 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to coarse angular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A18070
    Bt2—76 to 114 centimeters (29.9 to 44.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silty clay loam; 3 percent sand; 37 percent clay; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 1 percent gray (5YR 5/1) fine faint mottles; strong medium and coarse angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 roots; 0.5 fine pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A18071
    BC—114 to 135 centimeters (44.9 to 53.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dry; silty clay loam; 2 percent sand; 34 percent clay; strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and 3 percent gray (5YR 5/1) medium mottles; moderate coarse angular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 roots; 0.5 pores; 1 percent iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A18072
    C—135 to 152 centimeters (53.1 to 59.8 inches); gray (5YR 5/1) and yellow (10YR 7/6) and brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; 2 percent sand; 33 percent clay; massive; 21.0 fine pores; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4. Lab sample # 40A18073