IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crete
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 01KS041014
  • User Pedon ID: 01KS041014
  • User Site Association ID: 01KS041-Carlson tax appealKansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 01KS041014
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40155
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.0238380
  • Std. Longitude: -97.0602951
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4
  • Location Description: About 3.5 miles north and 2 miles west of Chapman, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Cf—CRETE SILTY CLAY LOAM, 1 TO 3 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS041—Dickinson
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS041—Dickinson County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39097-A1—Upland, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • Classificaton Date - 8/13/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 130 cm of Depth to paleosol and 100 cm of Depth to redoximorphic concentrations


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess over clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/13/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 14
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • 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—51

    15—200

    75—100

    —51—

    —185—

    —25—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    357

    —

    270

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium cloddy structure; friable; slow permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2137; observed in push tube
    Bt1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; slow permeability; 20 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2138; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 172799; continuous - phpvsfiid 172799
    Bt2—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; slow permeability; 20 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2139; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 172800; continuous - phpvsfiid 172800
    Bt3—51 to 75 centimeters (20.1 to 29.5 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior and brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, moist; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; slow permeability; 20 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2140; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 172801; continuous - phpvsfiid 172801
    Btk—75 to 100 centimeters (29.5 to 39.4 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; slow permeability; 12 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent fine and medium irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate nodules with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2141; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 172802; continuous - phpvsfiid 172802
    Bt4—100 to 130 centimeters (39.4 to 51.2 inches);, 80 percent brown (10YR 4/3) exterior and 20 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; slow permeability; 12 percent faint dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries infused into matrix adjacent to pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2142; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 172803; continuous - phpvsfiid 172803
    2Bt5—130 to 180 centimeters (51.2 to 70.9 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; slow permeability; 10 percent faint dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2143; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 172804; continuous - phpvsfiid 172804
    2Bt6—180 to 200 centimeters (70.9 to 78.7 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; slow permeability; 10 percent faint dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2144; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 172805; continuous - phpvsfiid 172805
    2BC—200 to 220 centimeters (78.7 to 86.6 inches);, 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3) exterior and 20 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) exterior and 10 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior, moist; clay loam; firm; 1 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2145; observed in push tube