IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Judson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 06KS005602
  • User Pedon ID: 06KS005602
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 06KS005602
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40809
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 39.5036125
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3647232
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6 S.
  • Range: 18 E.
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 150' E & 1300' S of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: Ju—JUDSON SILT LOAM, 2 TO 6 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS005—Atchison
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS005—Atchison County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-E3—Lancaster, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Gienger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Pachic 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 - Judson
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Pachic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/30/2006
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty colluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/30/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 21
  • 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—130

    98—

    —130—

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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

    1.5

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    215

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    A1—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3598; observed in push tube
    A2—14 to 35 centimeters (5.5 to 13.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior silty clay loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3599; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 334032; patchy - phpvsfiid 334032
    A3—35 to 62 centimeters (13.8 to 24.4 inches); 90 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior and 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior silty clay loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 4 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3600; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 334026; patchy - phpvsfiid 334026
    AB—62 to 98 centimeters (24.4 to 38.6 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2 percent faint clay films on surfaces along root channels; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3601; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 334025; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 334025
    Bt2—98 to 130 centimeters (38.6 to 51.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; moderately hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 10 percent distinct silt coats on vertical faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3602; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 334024; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 334033; continuous - phpvsfiid 334024; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 334033
    Bt1—130 to 152 centimeters (51.2 to 59.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 4 percent distinct organoargillans on vertical faces of peds and 8 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3603; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 334034; continuous - phpvsfiid 334035; continuous - phpvsfiid 334034; continuous - phpvsfiid 334035