IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kipson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 01KS201051
  • User Pedon ID: 01KS201051
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 01KS201051
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40171
  • 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: 39.6216469
  • Std. Longitude: -96.8820114
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5S
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4 of the NW1/4
  • Location Description: About 6 miles south of Barnes, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Kp—KIPSON SILTY CLAY LOAM, 5 TO 30 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS201—Washington
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS201—Washington County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39096-E8—Kimeo, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Entic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kipson
  • PSC - 25 to 90 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/18/2012
  • Classifier - W. Wehmueller
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kipson
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Entic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy colluvium over silty and clayey residuum weathered from clayey shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent strong weathered shale, clayey at 60cm
  • Geology: Upper Permian Shales formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 62
  • 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

    weakly coherent

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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—26

    26—60

    60—

    —26—

    —34—

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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

    12

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    418

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    180

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    A—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; 3 percent by volume rounded 75-125-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 10 percent by volume rounded 10-25-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2098; observed in push tube
    Bw1—18 to 26 centimeters (7.1 to 10.2 inches);, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) exterior and dark olive brown (2.5Y 3/3) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 12 percent by volume rounded 10-25-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2099
    2Bw2—26 to 40 centimeters (10.2 to 15.7 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2100
    2Bw3—40 to 60 centimeters (15.7 to 23.6 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2101
    2Cr—60 to 100 centimeters (23.6 to 39.4 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments.