IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lancaster
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2015NE095500
  • User Pedon ID: S2015NE095500
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 16N0187
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 82547
  • 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: 40.1025000
  • Std. Longitude: -97.0600800
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2 N.
  • Range: 3 E.
  • Section: 35
  • Map Unit: 4170—Lancaster and Edalgo soils, 11 to 30 percent slopes
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE095—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-LIN—Lincoln, Nebraska
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE095—Jefferson County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40097-A1—Endicott, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Nester, D. Kohake, B. Evans, C. Latta, J. Anderson, D. Shurtliff
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Udic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lancaster
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Udic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/27/2015
  • Classifier - D. Kohake
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Ksat Class Upper: moderately high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated sandstone, unspecified at 65cm
  • Geology: Dakota formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R074XY115KS Loamy Hills

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/25/2015 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: D. Kohake, B. Nester, B. Evans, C. Latta, D. Shurtilff
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—25

    25—65

    65—

    —25—

    —40—

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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

    6

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    429

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    315

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    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; 16 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; 7.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very weakly coherent cemented 5-10-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments observed by visual inspection method. Lab sample # 16N00538
    BA—14 to 25 centimeters (5.5 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; common (2.0) medium roots throughout and many (5.0) fine roots throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 16N00539
    Bt1—25 to 42 centimeters (9.8 to 16.5 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; loam; 23 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic structure; common (2.0) medium roots throughout and common (4.0) fine roots throughout; 20 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 16N00540
    Bt2—42 to 65 centimeters (16.5 to 25.6 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; clay loam; 27 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic structure; common (1.0) medium roots throughout and common (3.0) fine roots throughout; 25 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 16N00541
    R—65 centimeters (25.6 inches); bedrock; fragments.