IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kuma
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05KS171041
  • User Pedon ID: 05KS171041
  • User Site Association ID: 05MLRA72-1619Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 7205KS171-1619-4
  • Transect Stop Number - 11
  • Transect Interval - 158.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 05KS171041
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40805
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 38.3593330
  • Std. Longitude: -100.8318329
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19s
  • Range: 32w
  • Section: 35
  • Location Description: 817 meters north and 44 meters east of the Southwest corner
  • Map Unit: 1619—Keith silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS171—Scott
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS171—Scott County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38100-C7—Pawnee Mound, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom Cochran
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kuma
  • PSC - 5 to 55 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keith
  • Classificaton Date - 6/8/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 86 cm of depth to secondary carbonates


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian deposits
  • Landscape: tableland
  • Landform: depression
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/8/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 47
  • 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—74

    5—112

    —74—

    —97—
    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

    0.5

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    —

    912.6

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed, moist; loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 8.0 very fine roots throughout and 7.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3259; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 294444; patchy - phpvsfiid 294444
    Bt—5 to 23 centimeters (2.0 to 9.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) rubbed, moist; loam; 22 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic structure; very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 6.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 30 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3260; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 294445; continuous - phpvsfiid 294445
    Btb1—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) rubbed, moist; loam; 20 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.8 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine moderate-continuity tubular and 0.5 fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3261; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 294446; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 294446
    Btb2—36 to 74 centimeters (14.2 to 29.1 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) rubbed, moist; clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate coarse prismatic structure; very firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.7 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 50 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 294447; continuous - phpvsfiid 294447
    Btb3—74 to 86 centimeters (29.1 to 33.9 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed, moist; clay loam; 36 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; moderately slow permeability; 0.6 fine roots in cracks; 0.5 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 15 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 294449; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 294449
    Btkb—86 to 112 centimeters (33.9 to 44.1 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) rubbed, moist; loam; 22 percent clay; weak fine prismatic structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 0.4 very fine roots in cracks; 3.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 5 percent fine irregular light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, carbonate masses in matrix and 10 percent medium irregular light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 294450; patchy - phpvsfiid 294450
    Bkb1—112 to 142 centimeters (44.1 to 55.9 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) rubbed, moist; loam; 18 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak fine prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 0.3 fine roots in cracks; 3.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent fine irregular light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, carbonate masses in matrix and 10 percent medium irregular light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Bkb2—142 to 203 centimeters (55.9 to 79.9 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) rubbed, moist; loam; 20 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.2 fine roots in cracks; 3.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent fine threadlike white (10YR 8/1), dry, carbonate masses in matrix and 15 percent fine irregular light gray (10YR 7/1), dry, carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube