IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nuckolls
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 00KS089002
  • User Pedon ID: 00KS089002
  • User Site Association ID: 00KS089-Jewell County, land judgingKansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 00KS089-1
  • Transect Stop Number - 2
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 00KS089002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40142
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 39.7696190
  • Std. Longitude: -98.4498215
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3S
  • Range: 10W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4 NE1/4
  • Location Description: Site 2 of the 2000, Jewell County, KS, land judging contest.
  • Map Unit: Nr—NUCKOLLS-ROXBURY SILT LOAMS, 0 TO 30 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS089—Jewell
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS089—Jewell County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39098-G4—Esbon, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nuckolls
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/11/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 92 cm of Depth to paleosol


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty loess over loamy pedisediment over clayey residuum weathered from calcareous shale
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/11/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 36
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • 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

    secondary carbonates

    0—76

    15—110

    38—

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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

    7

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    525

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    270

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1943; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 25 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1944. continuous - phpvsfiid 21146; continuous - phpvsfiid 21146
    Btk1—38 to 61 centimeters (15.0 to 24.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 20 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 12 percent medium spherical carbonate nodules infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; very slight effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1945. continuous - phpvsfiid 21147; continuous - phpvsfiid 21147
    Btk2—61 to 76 centimeters (24.0 to 29.9 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 12 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses lining pores and 5 percent fine spherical carbonate nodules infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1946. patchy - phpvsfiid 21148; patchy - phpvsfiid 21148
    Btk3—76 to 92 centimeters (29.9 to 36.2 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; hard, firm; 10 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses lining pores; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1947. patchy - phpvsfiid 21149; patchy - phpvsfiid 21149
    2Bt2—92 to 110 centimeters (36.2 to 43.3 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) exterior and brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; hard, firm; 10 percent faint dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent fine irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1948. patchy - phpvsfiid 21150; patchy - phpvsfiid 21150
    2BC—110 to 130 centimeters (43.3 to 51.2 inches);, strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 1 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses lining pores; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1949
    3Bk1—130 to 170 centimeters (51.2 to 66.9 inches);, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior, moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 2 percent medium spherical carbonate nodules infused into matrix along faces of peds; 5 percent by volume well rounded ? to 5-? millimeter shale, calcareous fragments; strong effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1950; observed in push tube
    3Bk2—170 to 200 centimeters (66.9 to 78.7 inches);, 50 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior, moist; loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 5 percent medium spherical carbonate nodules; 5 percent by volume ? to 5-? millimeter shale, calcareous fragments; violent effervescence; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1951
    3Cr—200 to 220 centimeters (78.7 to 86.6 inches); fragments.