IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Geary
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 01KS149009
  • User Pedon ID: 01KS149009
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 01KS149009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40159
  • Print Date: 2/3/2025

    • 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: 39.2266312
  • Std. Longitude: -96.5290375
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9S
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4 NW 1/4
  • Location Description: About 1.5 miles east and 2.5 miles north of Manhattan, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Tu—TULLY SILTY CLAY LOAM, 3 TO 7 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS149—Pottawatomie
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS149—Pottawatomie County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39096-B5—Manhattan, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Geary
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 32 to 82 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/25/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty colluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • 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
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent moderate weathered shale, clayey at 215cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/25/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 56
  • 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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    215 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    paralithic contact

    0—46

    32—150

    150—215

    215—

    —46—

    —118—

    —65—

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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

    9

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    350

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    90

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    A—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2111; observed in push tube
    BA—19 to 32 centimeters (7.5 to 12.6 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2112
    Bt1—32 to 46 centimeters (12.6 to 18.1 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2113. continuous - phpvsfiid 169666; continuous - phpvsfiid 169666
    Bt2—46 to 70 centimeters (18.1 to 27.6 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2114. continuous - phpvsfiid 169667; continuous - phpvsfiid 169667
    Bt3—70 to 102 centimeters (27.6 to 40.2 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 15 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2115. continuous - phpvsfiid 169668; continuous - phpvsfiid 169668
    Bt4—102 to 150 centimeters (40.2 to 59.1 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2116. continuous - phpvsfiid 169669; continuous - phpvsfiid 169669
    BCk—150 to 215 centimeters (59.1 to 84.6 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent distinct carbonate coats on all faces of peds; 8 percent fine and medium spherical weakly coherent cemented carbonate nodules with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2117. continuous - phpvsfiid 169664; continuous - phpvsfiid 169664
    Cr—215 to 230 centimeters (84.6 to 90.6 inches); bedrock; fragments.