IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chillicothe
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KS087025
  • User Pedon ID: 04KS087025
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 10604KS087-7261-003
  • Transect Stop Number - 5
  • Transect Interval - 15.2
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KS087025
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40199
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 19 E
  • Section: 26
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS087—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS087—Jefferson County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Robertson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chillicothe
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/23/2004
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey residuum weathered from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/23/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 43
  • 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—51

    51—155

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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

    1

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); silt loam; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2960
    A1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); silt loam; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2961
    A2—27 to 51 centimeters (10.6 to 20.1 inches); silty clay loam; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2962
    Bt1—51 to 82 centimeters (20.1 to 32.3 inches); silty clay loam; slightly hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2963
    Bt2—82 to 109 centimeters (32.3 to 42.9 inches); silty clay loam; hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2964
    Btss3—109 to 130 centimeters (42.9 to 51.2 inches); silty clay; hard, very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2965
    Bt4—130 to 155 centimeters (51.2 to 61.0 inches); silty clay; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2966
    BC—155 to 184 centimeters (61.0 to 72.4 inches); silty clay; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2967