IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hastings
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 85NE035111
  • User Pedon ID: 85NE035111
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0636
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 58930
  • Print Date: 6/3/2024
  • 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: 40.5163879
  • Std. Longitude: -98.1486130
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7N
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: 650 feet west and 625 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: HdC2—Hastings silty clay loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes, eroded3870—Hastings silty clay loam, 3 to 7 percent slopes, eroded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE035—Clay
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE035—Clay County, Nebraska
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Kuzila
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Udic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 111
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hastings
  • PSC - 17 to 52 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hastings
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Udic Argiustoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1985
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess
  • Landscape: plateaus or tablelands
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • 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—36

    17—52

    —36—

    —39—

    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

    559

    315

    69

    11

    12

    Ap—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, black (10YR 2/1) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; massive; very hard, firm; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P3695; dry when described;
    Bt1—17 to 36 centimeters (6.7 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; moderate coarse prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P3696; dry when described;
    Bt2—36 to 52 centimeters (14.2 to 20.5 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate fine blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P3697; dry when described;
    BC1—52 to 81 centimeters (20.5 to 31.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate fine prismatic, and moderate fine blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P3698; dry when described;. common medium distinct 10YR56 mottles
    BC2—81 to 100 centimeters (31.9 to 39.4 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate fine prismatic, and moderate fine blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P3699; dry when described;. common medium distinct 10YR56 mottles
    C1—100 to 133 centimeters (39.4 to 52.4 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; massive; slightly hard, friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P3700; dry when described;. common medium distinct 10YR56 mottles
    C2—133 to 152 centimeters (52.4 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3) crushed, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, moist; silt loam; 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; massive; soft, friable; 1 percent medium irregular carbonate concretions; fragments. Lab sample # 86P3701; dry when described;. few medium carbonate concretions concentrations; common medium distinct 10YR56 mottles