IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shellabarger
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 00KS177014
  • User Pedon ID: 00KS177014
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 00KS177014
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40149
  • 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: 39.1411324
  • Std. Longitude: -95.9353256
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 S
  • Range: 14 E
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: 1400 feet south and 2000 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Behind Howards house. Due west of the front side of the Morton building and 2 fence posts east of the corner post on the west side of the house. Around 100 feet due north. Sampled for lab. May fit the Shellabarger concept.
  • Map Unit: Sp—MORRILL FINE SANDY LOAM, 3 TO 8 PERCENT SLOPES7426—Morrill fine sandy loam, 3 to 7 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS177—Shawnee
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS177—Shawnee County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-B8—Rossville, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shellabarger
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 31 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/15/2000
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy glaciofluvial deposits and/or sandy glaciofluvial deposits
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Geology: Menoken Surface formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/15/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 14
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    31—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

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    180

    36

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    180

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    A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2014; dry when described; observed in push tube
    A2—13 to 31 centimeters (5.1 to 12.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2015; dry when described; observed in push tube
    Bt—31 to 70 centimeters (12.2 to 27.6 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) sandy clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2016; dry when described; observed in push tube
    2C1—70 to 109 centimeters (27.6 to 42.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2017; dry when described; observed in push tube
    2C2—109 to 203 centimeters (42.9 to 79.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2018; dry when described; observed in push tube