IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Keith
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05KS171091
  • User Pedon ID: 05KS171091
  • User Site Association ID: 05MLRA72-1619Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 7205KS171-1619-10
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Transect Interval - 249.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 05KS171091
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40808
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 38.3080826
  • Std. Longitude: -100.8415833
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 20s
  • Range: 32w
  • Section: 22
  • Location Description: 43 meters south and 740meters east of the Northwest 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 Aridic 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 - Keith
  • PSC - 4 to 54 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keith
  • Classificaton Date - 7/19/2005
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 39 cm of depth to secondary carbonates


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/19/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 58
  • 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—22

    4—39

    —22—

    —35—
    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

    0.3

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    —

    901

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 4 centimeters (0.0 to 1.6 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 4.0 very fine roots throughout; 0.7 fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3253; observed in push tube
    Bt1—4 to 22 centimeters (1.6 to 8.7 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.4 fine roots throughout; 0.6 fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3254; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 294571; continuous - phpvsfiid 294571
    Bt2—22 to 39 centimeters (8.7 to 15.4 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 0.3 fine roots throughout; 0.2 medium low-continuity tubular and 0.5 fine low-continuity dendritic tubular and 0.2 coarse low-continuity tubular pores; 20 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3255; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 294572; continuous - phpvsfiid 294572
    Btk—39 to 115 centimeters (15.4 to 45.3 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.3 fine roots in cracks; 0.2 medium low-continuity tubular and 0.4 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on vertical faces of peds; 3 percent fine irregular pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry, carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 294573; patchy - phpvsfiid 294573
    Bk1—115 to 151 centimeters (45.3 to 59.4 inches);, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.2 fine roots in cracks; 0.2 medium low-continuity tubular and 3.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent fine irregular light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry, carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Bk2—151 to 215 centimeters (59.4 to 84.6 inches);, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 15 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 0.3 very fine roots in cracks and 0.2 fine roots in cracks; 0.3 medium low-continuity tubular and 7.0 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry, carbonate masses in matrix and 1 percent fine threadlike light gray (10YR 7/2), dry, carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    Ck—215 to 241 centimeters (84.6 to 94.9 inches);, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 12 percent clay; weak very coarse prismatic structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 0.2 fine roots in cracks; 0.3 fine low-continuity tubular pores; 1 percent fine threadlike light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry, carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube