IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crete
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985NE035107
  • User Pedon ID: 85NE035107
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0632
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58926
  • 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: 40.5669441
  • Std. Longitude: -98.1519470
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 250 feet north and 175 feet west of the southeast corner
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE035—Clay
  • MLRA: 69—Upper Arkansas Valley Rolling Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Kuzila
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 107
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • PSC - 40 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Pachic Argiustoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Landform: plain
  • Slope Position: on a slope
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    0—70

    40—70

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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

    1

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    —

    556

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    135

    69

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    11

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    12

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    1Ap—0 to 22 centimeters (0.0 to 8.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, black (10YR 2/1) crushed, moist; silt loam; moderate fine platy structure; hard, friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P03667; dry when described;
    1A—22 to 40 centimeters (8.7 to 15.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, black (10YR 2/1) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P03668; dry when described;
    1Bt—40 to 70 centimeters (15.7 to 27.6 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silty clay; moderate fine prismatic, and moderate fine blocky structure; very hard, firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P03669; dry when described;
    1BC—70 to 90 centimeters (27.6 to 35.4 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium blocky structure; hard, firm; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P03670; dry when described;. few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few fine prominent 7.5YR56 mottles
    1C1—90 to 120 centimeters (35.4 to 47.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, moist; silt loam; 11 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine prominent mottles; massive; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; 11 percent medium irregular carbonate concretions; fragments; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P03671; dry when described;. Few pedotubules about 2 to 5 cm long and 1/2 to 1 cm wide.; common medium carbonate concretions concentrations; few fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; common fine prominent 7.5YR56 mottles
    1C2—120 to 152 centimeters (47.2 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/4) crushed, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, moist; silt loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; 11 percent fine threadlike carbonate concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 86P03672; dry when described;. common fine carbonate concretions concentrations; common fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations