IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gymer
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KS197001
  • User Pedon ID: 04KS197001
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KS197001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40228
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.1721344
  • Std. Longitude: -96.2719574
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 S
  • Range: 10 E
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: northwest corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS197—Wabaunsee
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS197—Wabaunsee County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T. Robertson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Gymer
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 42 to 92 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/16/2004
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: riser
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/16/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 06
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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—42

    42—167

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    —125—
    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

    17

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    A1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; 23 percent clay; soft, very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2968; slightly dry when described; observed in push tube
    A2—20 to 42 centimeters (7.9 to 16.5 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; 24 percent clay; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2969; slightly dry when described; observed in push tube
    Bt1—42 to 56 centimeters (16.5 to 22.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; 27 percent clay; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2970; slightly dry when described; observed in push tube
    Bt2—56 to 70 centimeters (22.0 to 27.6 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2971; moderately dry when described; observed in push tube
    Bt3—70 to 93 centimeters (27.6 to 36.6 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2972; moderately dry when described; observed in push tube
    Bt4—93 to 117 centimeters (36.6 to 46.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), dry, iron-manganese masses in matrix surrounding redox depletions; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2973; moderately dry when described; observed in push tube
    Bt5—117 to 135 centimeters (46.1 to 53.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent distinct irregular dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), dry, iron-manganese masses in matrix surrounding redox depletions; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2974; very dry when described; observed in push tube
    BC—135 to 167 centimeters (53.1 to 65.7 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; slightly hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 18 percent distinct irregular reddish brown (5YR 4/3), dry, iron depletions infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2975; very dry when described; observed in push tube
    C—167 to 188 centimeters (65.7 to 74.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; 24 percent clay; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent faint threadlike reddish brown (5YR 4/3), dry, iron depletions infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2976; very dry when described; observed in push tube