IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ladysmith
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 06KS113008
  • User Pedon ID: 06KS113008
  • 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 # - 06KS113008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40831
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 38.4362984
  • Std. Longitude: -97.4995651
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18S
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4
  • Location Description: 4 miles north and 2 miles east of McPherson KS
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS113—McPherson
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS113—McPherson County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38097-D4—Canton, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DeAnn Presley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Paleustolls
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ladysmith
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Paleustolls
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/21/2006
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess over loess over colluvium
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Ogallala group .
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/21/2006 (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

    secondary carbonates

    reduced matrix

    lithologic discontinuity

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—92

    15—92

    15—

    74—130

    92—130

    130—174

    130—174

    174—

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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

    0

    —

    —

    474

    —

    180

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine dendritic tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUR1878; observed in push tube
    Bt—15 to 50 centimeters (5.9 to 19.7 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay; 45 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.2 very fine roots between peds; 0.5 fine irregular pores; 10 percent faint very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUR1879; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 333749; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 333749
    Bt—50 to 74 centimeters (19.7 to 29.1 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silty clay; 45 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.2 very fine roots between peds; 0.5 fine irregular pores; 10 percent faint very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUR1880; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 748081; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 748081
    Btk—74 to 92 centimeters (29.1 to 36.2 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay; 45 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.2 very fine roots between peds; 0.5 fine irregular pores; 5 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent fine distinct carbonate nodules; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUR1881; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 333750; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 333750
    Bkg—92 to 130 centimeters (36.2 to 51.2 inches);, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.2 very fine roots between peds; 0.5 fine irregular pores; 2 percent medium distinct black (N 2.5/), moist, iron-manganese masses and 5 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent fine distinct carbonate nodules; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUR1882; observed in push tube
    2Bt—130 to 174 centimeters (51.2 to 68.5 inches);, very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 fine irregular pores; 20 percent faint dusky red (2.5YR 3/2), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; 15 percent medium prominent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, iron depletions and 25 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUR1883; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 333751; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 333751
    3BC—174 to 210 centimeters (68.5 to 82.7 inches);, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; clay; 48 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5 percent fine prominent black (N 2.5/), moist, iron-manganese masses and 5 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUR1884; observed in push tube
    3BC—210 to 250 centimeters (82.7 to 98.4 inches);, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; clay; 48 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5 percent fine prominent black (N 2.5/), moist, iron-manganese masses and 5 percent fine prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUR1885; observed in push tube