IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crete
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009NE109002
  • User Pedon ID: S2009NE109002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2009NE109002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0124
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23955
  • 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: 40.9025574
  • Std. Longitude: -96.6760864
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 7E
  • Section: 19
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4 of the SW1/4
  • Map Unit: 4101—Littlesalt silty clay loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE109—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE109—Lancaster County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40096-H6—Davey, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Kohake
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Mollic Hapludalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 10/29/2008
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Landscape: dissected till plain
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/29/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    BRIN2

    DISP

    Bromus inermis

    Distichlis spicata

    smooth brome

    saltgrass

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—20

    20—75

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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

    4

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    270

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silty clay loam; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N00864
    Btkz1—20 to 44 centimeters (7.9 to 17.3 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; silty clay; 10 percent fine prominent white (2.5Y 8/1), moist, salt, finely disseminated and 10 percent fine prominent white (2.5Y 8/1), moist, carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N00865
    Btkz2—44 to 75 centimeters (17.3 to 29.5 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3), light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), dry; silty clay; 1 percent fine prominent white (2.5Y 8/1), moist, carbonate masses and 1 percent fine prominent white (2.5Y 8/1), moist, salt, finely disseminated; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N00866
    BC—75 to 100 centimeters (29.5 to 39.4 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; silty clay loam; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 09N00867