IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pawnee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 06KS149002
  • User Pedon ID: 06KS149002
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 06KS149002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40839
  • 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: 39.4574432
  • Std. Longitude: -96.5566635
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7 S
  • Range: 8 E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4
  • Location Description: About 3 miles east and 2.5 miles north of Olsburg, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: 7502—Pawnee clay loam, 3 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS149—Pottawatomie
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS149—Pottawatomie County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39096-D5—Olsburg, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller, J. Warner, C. Remley, M.D. Ransom
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pawnee
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 16 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/4/2006
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: till derived from mixed over residuum weathered from clayey shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/4/2006 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    slickensides

    secondary carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—39

    16—105

    39—105

    76—126

    105—

    —39—

    —89—

    —66—

    —50—

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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

    7

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    —

    439

    —

    220

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    A—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches); black (10YR 2/1) exterior silt loam; 22 percent clay; strong medium granular structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3552; observed in trench
    Bt—16 to 39 centimeters (6.3 to 15.4 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior silty clay; 52 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; extremely firm; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3553; observed in trench. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 338592; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 338592
    Btss—39 to 76 centimeters (15.4 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior silty clay; 48 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 5 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) and 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3554; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 338600; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 338593; continuous - phpvsfiid 338600; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 338593
    Btkss—76 to 105 centimeters (29.9 to 41.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior silty clay; 45 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 5 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) and 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent very fine faint spherical very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses in matrix; 2 percent fine irregular moderately coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3555; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 338601; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 338594; continuous - phpvsfiid 338601; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 338594
    2BCk—105 to 126 centimeters (41.3 to 49.6 inches); 50 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) exterior and 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) exterior silty clay loam; 37 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 2 percent very fine faint spherical very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses in matrix; 2 percent fine irregular moderately coherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3556; observed in trench
    2C—126 to 160 centimeters (49.6 to 63.0 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) exterior and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) exterior silt loam; 18 percent clay; structureless massive; firm; 2 percent very fine faint spherical very weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # KSUSS3557; observed in trench