IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ladysmith
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 06KS079004
  • User Pedon ID: 06KS079004
  • User Site Association ID: Irwin, Ladysmith, Dwight, Konza DeAnn Presley PhD studyKansas State University Laboratory PedonsKSU _ Presley dissertation
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 06KS079004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40824
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 37.9931564
  • Std. Longitude: -97.3410263
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24S
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: S 1/2 N E1/4
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS079—Harvey
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS079—Harvey County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37097-H3—Sedgwick NE, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DeAnn Presley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ladysmith
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/9/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey loess over colluvium over residuum weathered from limestone
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: at 170cm
  • Geology: Loess group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/9/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • 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

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    secondary carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    paralithic contact

    0—64

    13—125

    13—170

    42—125

    91—125

    91—125

    125—

    170—

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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

    2

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    —

    445

    —

    225

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), moist; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; 0.2 very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear boundary. Lab sample # KSUR1935; observed in push tube
    Bt—13 to 42 centimeters (5.1 to 16.5 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), moist; silty clay loam; 39 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.2 very fine roots between peds; 5 percent faint black (10YR 2/1), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine faint black (N 2.5/), moist, iron-manganese nodules; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear boundary. Lab sample # KSUR1936; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 336885; patchy - phpvsfiid 336885
    Bt2—42 to 64 centimeters (16.5 to 25.2 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; 39 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.2 very fine roots between peds; 20 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium distinct black (N 2.5/), moist, iron-manganese nodules and 5 percent fine faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear boundary. Lab sample # KSUR1937; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 336886; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 336886
    Bt3—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay; 42 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.2 very fine roots between peds; 10 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 5 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium distinct black (N 2.5/), moist, iron-manganese nodules; 1 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear boundary. Lab sample # KSUR1938; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 336887; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 336887
    2Btk—91 to 125 centimeters (35.8 to 49.2 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay; 46 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.2 very fine roots between peds; 10 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine faint grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions and 5 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 5 percent medium distinct black (N 2.5/), moist, iron-manganese nodules; 1 percent medium distinct carbonate nodules; 2 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear boundary. Lab sample # KSUR1939; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 336888; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 336888
    3C—125 to 170 centimeters (49.2 to 66.9 inches);, olive gray (5Y 5/2), moist; silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent fine distinct black (N 2.5/), moist, iron-manganese masses and 5 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 50 percent by volume 5-?-10 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # KSUR1940; observed in push tube
    3Cr—170 to 220 centimeters (66.9 to 86.6 inches);, 80 percent light olive gray (5Y 6/2) and 20 percent white (5Y 8/1), moist; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube