IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mento
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 02KS051009
  • User Pedon ID: 02KS051009
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 02KS051009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40175
  • 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: 38.9378433
  • Std. Longitude: -99.3232498
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13S
  • Range: 18W
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4
  • Map Unit: Mo—MENTO SOILS, 3 TO 7 PERCENT SLOPES, ERODED
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS051—Ellis
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS051—Ellis County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38099-H3—Hays North, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Tricks
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mento
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 11 to 43 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/13/2002
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • 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: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for very brief periods
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent moderate weathered limestone, unspecified at 122cm with 10 to <45
  • Geology: Loess Over Fort Hays Limestone formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/13/2002 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 32
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - overcast
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    strongly coherent

    122 - 178

    - 56 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    paralithic materials

    0—25

    25—43

    43—51

    122—178

    —28—

    —15—

    —94—

    —38—
    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

    6

    30

    10

    651

    —

    45

    584

    —

    171

    12.2

    25

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    Ap1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak thin platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; hard, firm; 15.0 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2517
    Ap2—20 to 25 centimeters (7.9 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak thick platy parts to moderate medium granular structure; hard, friable; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2518
    Btk1—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 2.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 20 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct cylindrical very weakly coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry, carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout; 1 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2519. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 235238; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 235238
    Btk2—36 to 43 centimeters (14.2 to 16.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint dark brown (10YR 3/3), dry, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct irregular very weakly coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry, carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout; 1 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2520. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 235239; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 235239
    Bkz—43 to 51 centimeters (16.9 to 20.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent fine prominent threadlike weakly coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry, carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout and 10 percent fine distinct threadlike weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), dry, salt crystals with clear boundaries throughout; 1 percent by volume flat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2521
    2Bkz1—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent fine distinct threadlike weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), dry, salt crystals with clear boundaries throughout and 2 percent fine prominent threadlike weakly coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry, carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2522
    2Bkz2—66 to 76 centimeters (26.0 to 29.9 inches); pink (7.5YR 7/4), light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine distinct threadlike weakly coherent cemented white (10YR 8/1), dry, salt crystals with clear boundaries throughout and 2 percent fine prominent threadlike weakly coherent cemented very pale brown (10YR 8/2), dry, carbonate masses with clear boundaries throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2523
    2C—76 to 122 centimeters (29.9 to 48.0 inches); pink (7.5YR 8/4), pink (7.5YR 7/3), moist; very gravelly loam; slightly hard, friable; 50 percent by volume flat very angular strongly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2524
    2R—122 to 178 centimeters (48.0 to 70.1 inches); white (10YR 8/1), light gray (10YR 7/2), moist; extremely gravelly loam; very rigid, very rigid; 95 percent by volume flat very angular very strongly coherent cemented 2-?-600 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Chalky limestone - Fort Hays.