IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Lancaster
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 02KS029004
  • User Pedon ID: 02KS029004
  • User Site Association ID: MO5 Soil Workshop PedonsKansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 02KS029004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40173
  • Print Date: 12/4/2024

    • 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: 39.3636475
  • Std. Longitude: -97.5983734
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8S
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4 of NE1/4
  • Location Description: Located 3 and 1/2 miles east of the intersection of U.S. Highways 24 and 81.
  • Map Unit: Lh—LANCASTER-HEDVILLE COMPLEX, 5 TO 30 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS029—Cloud
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS029—Cloud County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39097-C5—Lamar, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.C. Remley, 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 - Lancaster
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 35 to 75 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/16/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 101 cm of Depth to discontinuity


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy pedisediment derived from mixed over loamy residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent sandstone and shale at 143cm
  • Geology: Dakota Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/16/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 47
  • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—24

    35—75

    143—

    —24—

    —40—

    —-
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    10/16/2002

    50

    —

    11
    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

    8

    —

    —

    461

    —

    90

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; moderate permeability; 6.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-5-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2509; observed in trench
    A2—10 to 24 centimeters (3.9 to 9.4 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; moderate permeability; 6.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-5-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2510; observed in trench
    BA—24 to 35 centimeters (9.4 to 13.8 inches);, 60 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) broken face and 40 percent brown (7.5YR 4/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-5-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2511; observed in trench
    Bt1—35 to 52 centimeters (13.8 to 20.5 inches);, strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-5-20 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2512; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 235896; patchy - phpvsfiid 235896
    Bt2—52 to 75 centimeters (20.5 to 29.5 inches);, strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) exterior, moist; loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; moderately slow permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-10-30 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2513; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 235897; patchy - phpvsfiid 235897
    BC—75 to 101 centimeters (29.5 to 39.8 inches);, 50 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face and 50 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face, moist; very fine sandy loam; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 fine roots between peds; 1 percent fine prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in cracks; 10 percent by volume flat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-128-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2514; observed in trench
    2C—101 to 143 centimeters (39.8 to 56.3 inches); variegated, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) exterior and pale brown (10YR 6/3) exterior, moist; extremely parachannery very fine sandy loam; massive; firm; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 fine roots in cracks; 1 percent medium prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented brownish yellow (10YR 6/8), moist, iron-manganese masses in cracks; 90 percent by volume flat subrounded weakly coherent cemented 2-128-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2515; observed in trench
    2Cr—143 to 205 centimeters (56.3 to 80.7 inches);, gray (7.5YR 6/1) exterior, moist; bedrock; massive; very slow permeability; 10 percent coarse prominent irregular weakly coherent cemented yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, iron-manganese masses along lamina or strata surfaces; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # KSUSS2516; observed in trench