IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Harney
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03KS123001
  • User Pedon ID: 03KS123001
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 03KS123001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40187
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 39.3579445
  • Std. Longitude: -98.3586121
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8S
  • Range: 9W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 2518 feet south and 159 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: About 9.5 miles south and 3 miles west of Glen Elder, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Hb—HARNEY SILT LOAM, 1 TO 3 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS123—Mitchell
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS123—Mitchell County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39098-C3—Blue Hill, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Harney
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 19 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/28/2003
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 40 cm of Depth to free lime and 98 cm of Depth to paleosol


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty loess derived from mixed over silty and clayey pedisediment derived from mixed
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/28/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 30
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • 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

    secondary carbonates

    0—40

    19—78

    40—98

    —40—

    —59—

    —58—
    Site Soil Temperature
    Site Obs. Date Depth Sensor Kind Temperature
    cm C

    7/28/2003

    50

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    26
    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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    —

    495

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 19 centimeters (0.0 to 7.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; hard, firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2704; observed in trench
    Bt—19 to 40 centimeters (7.5 to 15.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silty clay; 40 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2705; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 244324; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 244324
    Btk1—40 to 55 centimeters (15.7 to 21.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries lining pores; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2706; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 244327; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 244327
    Btk2—55 to 78 centimeters (21.7 to 30.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films in root channels and/or pores and 10 percent distinct carbonate coats on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries lining pores; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2707; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 244332; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 244325; continuous - phpvsfiid 244332; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 244325
    BCk—78 to 98 centimeters (30.7 to 38.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent very fine threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries lining pores; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2708; observed in trench
    2Bt—98 to 170 centimeters (38.6 to 66.9 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent faint dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent very fine threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries lining pores; fragments; 1 percent krotovinas (volume percent); 1 percent krotovinas (lateral area percent); noneffervescent. Lab sample # KSUSS2709; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 244333; patchy - phpvsfiid 244333