IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chillicothe
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03KS091003
  • User Pedon ID: 03KS091003
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 03KS091003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40183
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 38.7807159
  • Std. Longitude: -94.6173630
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15 S
  • Range: 25 E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet south and 1500 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: 7525—Chillicothe silt loam, 2 to 5 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 - 34 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Polo
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/2003
  • 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: 7/1/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38
  • 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

    1

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    330

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    Ap—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2696; observed in push tube
    A—16 to 34 centimeters (6.3 to 13.4 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2697; observed in push tube
    Bt1—34 to 59 centimeters (13.4 to 23.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent faint organic stains on vertical faces of peds and 35 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct spherical strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2698; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 243995; continuous - phpvsfiid 244001; continuous - phpvsfiid 243995; continuous - phpvsfiid 244001
    Bt2—59 to 89 centimeters (23.2 to 35.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds and 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent fine distinct spherical strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2699; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 243996; continuous - phpvsfiid 244002; continuous - phpvsfiid 243996; continuous - phpvsfiid 244002
    Bt3—89 to 104 centimeters (35.0 to 40.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds and 35 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine distinct spherical strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2700; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 243997; continuous - phpvsfiid 244003; continuous - phpvsfiid 243997; continuous - phpvsfiid 244003
    Bt4—104 to 130 centimeters (40.9 to 51.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 45 percent fine distinct spherical strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2701; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 243998; continuous - phpvsfiid 243998
    Bt5—130 to 166 centimeters (51.2 to 65.4 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds and 10 percent distinct organic stains on vertical faces of peds; 55 percent fine distinct spherical manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2702; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 243999; continuous - phpvsfiid 244004; continuous - phpvsfiid 243999; continuous - phpvsfiid 244004
    2Bt6—166 to 180 centimeters (65.4 to 70.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 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 # KSUSS2703; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 244000; continuous - phpvsfiid 244000