IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Baileyville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03KS131004
  • User Pedon ID: 03KS131004
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 03KS131004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40189
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 5 S
  • Range: 13 E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 595 feet east and 550 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Approximately 2 miles west of Goff, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Wc—WYMORE SILTY CLAY LOAM, 4 TO 8 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS131—Nemaha
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS131—Nemaha County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-F8—Goff, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: P.Abel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Baileyville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/2/2003
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 46 cm of Depth to redoximorphic concentrations and 69 cm of Depth to pedisediment and 117 cm of Depth to till


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess over clayey till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/2/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 45
  • 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

    0—28

    13—

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    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

    4

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    417

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2590; observed in push tube. Texture close to silty clay.
    Bt1—13 to 28 centimeters (5.1 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior silty clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 medium roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 40 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2591; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 240535; continuous - phpvsfiid 240535
    Bt2—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior silty clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.8 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 40 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2592; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 240512; continuous - phpvsfiid 240512
    Bt3—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior silty clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.8 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine prominent irregular masses of oxidized iron infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2593; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 240513; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 240513
    2Bt4—69 to 91 centimeters (27.2 to 35.8 inches); 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior and 50 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent prominent spherical noncoherent cemented iron-manganese concretions throughout and 10 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented 4/4 4/4, moist, and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2594; observed in push tube. Increasing sand content.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 240515; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 240515
    2Bt5—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches); 60 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior and 40 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.8 fine roots throughout; 20 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent spherical noncoherent cemented iron-manganese nodules throughout and 10 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, and brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2595; observed in push tube. Increasing sand content.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 240516; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 240516
    3Bt6—117 to 160 centimeters (46.1 to 63.0 inches); 60 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior and 40 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 50 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent spherical noncoherent cemented iron-manganese nodules throughout and 10 percent faint irregular noncoherent cemented gray (10YR 5/1), moist, iron depletions infused into matrix along faces of peds and 20 percent fine and medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, and reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries infused into matrix along faces of peds; 2 percent carbonate concretions throughout; 2 percent by volume subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-5-10 millimeter quartzite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS2596; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 240517; continuous - phpvsfiid 240517