IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chillicothe
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03KS091002
  • User Pedon ID: 03KS091002
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 03KS091002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40182
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 38.8070984
  • Std. Longitude: -94.6094055
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14 S
  • Range: 25 E
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 1600 feet south and 750 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: 7462—Oska-Martin silty clay loams, 4 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS091—Johnson
  • MLRA: 107—Iowa and Missouri Deep Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS091—Johnson County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38094-G6—Stilwell, 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 - 31 to 81 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Polo
  • Classificaton Date - 5/12/2003
  • 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: summit
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/12/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 33
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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—59

    31—168

    —59—

    —137—
    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

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2689; observed in push tube
    A—13 to 31 centimeters (5.1 to 12.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2690; observed in push tube
    Bt1—31 to 59 centimeters (12.2 to 23.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2691; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 241376; continuous - phpvsfiid 241376
    Bt2—59 to 89 centimeters (23.2 to 35.0 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct spherical manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2692; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 241377; continuous - phpvsfiid 241377
    Bt3—89 to 115 centimeters (35.0 to 45.3 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct spherical manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2693; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 241380; continuous - phpvsfiid 241380
    2Bt4—115 to 140 centimeters (45.3 to 55.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct spherical manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2694; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 241381; continuous - phpvsfiid 241381
    2Bt5—140 to 168 centimeters (55.1 to 66.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct spherical manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2695; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 241382; continuous - phpvsfiid 241382