IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chillicothe
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03KS091001
  • User Pedon ID: 03KS091001
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 03KS091001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40181
  • Print Date: 1/28/2025

    • 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: 38.8223572
  • Std. Longitude: -94.7478027
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14 S
  • Range: 24 E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet south and 1400 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: Heritage Park, Horse Riding Area
  • Map Unit: 7462—Oska-Martin silty clay loams, 4 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS091—Johnson
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS091—Johnson County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chillicothe
  • PSC - 29 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Polo
  • Classificaton Date - 4/3/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess over silty and clayey residuum weathered from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: crest
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/3/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 32
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    0—64

    29—184

    —64—

    —155—
    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

    3

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    180

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2680; observed in push tube
    A2—15 to 29 centimeters (5.9 to 11.4 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2681; observed in push tube
    Bt1—29 to 39 centimeters (11.4 to 15.4 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine prismatic structure; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent faint very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine faint masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2682; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 240732; continuous - phpvsfiid 240732
    Bt2—39 to 64 centimeters (15.4 to 25.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine prismatic structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, organic stains on vertical faces of peds and 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct spherical strongly coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions throughout and 20 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2683; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 240730; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 240731; continuous - phpvsfiid 240730; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 240731
    Bt3—64 to 93 centimeters (25.2 to 36.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent distinct black (10YR 2/1), moist, organic stains on vertical faces of peds and 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct spherical strongly coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions throughout and 35 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2684; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 240733; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 240734; continuous - phpvsfiid 240733; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 240734
    Bt4—93 to 125 centimeters (36.6 to 49.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct spherical strongly coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions throughout and 40 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2685; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 240735; continuous - phpvsfiid 240735
    2Bt5—125 to 139 centimeters (49.2 to 54.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 25 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) on slickensides; 20 percent fine distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2686; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 240737; continuous - phpvsfiid 240737
    2Bt6—139 to 166 centimeters (54.7 to 65.4 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 25 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) on slickensides; 30 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2687; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 240739; continuous - phpvsfiid 240739
    2BCt—166 to 184 centimeters (65.4 to 72.4 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 10 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2688; observed in push tube