IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crete
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 01KS041020
  • User Pedon ID: 01KS041020
  • 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 # - 01KS041020
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40156
  • 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: 39.0220490
  • Std. Longitude: -97.0582199
  • 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 Pachic 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 - 27 to 77 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • Classificaton Date - 8/13/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 190 cm of Depth to paleosol and 90 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: shoulder
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • 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 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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—90

    27—145

    90—145

    —90—

    —118—

    —55—
    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

    —

    —

    351

    —

    90

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

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    A1—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 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 # KSUSS2146; observed in push tube
    A2—14 to 27 centimeters (5.5 to 10.6 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 # KSUSS2147; observed in push tube
    Bt1—27 to 66 centimeters (10.6 to 26.0 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; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2148; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 172806; continuous - phpvsfiid 172806
    Bt2—66 to 90 centimeters (26.0 to 35.4 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; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2149; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 172807; continuous - phpvsfiid 172807
    Btk—90 to 118 centimeters (35.4 to 46.5 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; 2 percent fine and medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron infused into matrix along faces of peds; 3 percent fine and medium irregular moderately coherent cemented carbonate nodules with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2150; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 172809; continuous - phpvsfiid 172809
    Bt3—118 to 145 centimeters (46.5 to 57.1 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; slow permeability; 12 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent medium and coarse prominent irregular noncoherent cemented light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries infused into matrix adjacent to pores; 1 percent fine threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses lining pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2151; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 172810; continuous - phpvsfiid 172810
    BC—145 to 190 centimeters (57.1 to 74.8 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) exterior and grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; slow permeability; 5 percent medium and coarse distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries infused into matrix adjacent to pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2152; observed in push tube
    2Bt4—190 to 230 centimeters (74.8 to 90.6 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) exterior, moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; slow permeability; 10 percent faint dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine and medium distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries infused into matrix adjacent to pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2153; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 172812; continuous - phpvsfiid 172812
    2BC—230 to 280 centimeters (90.6 to 110.2 inches);, 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3) exterior and 20 percent brown (7.5YR 5/3) exterior and 10 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; firm; 2 percent fine and medium 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 # KSUSS2154; observed in push tube