IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sarcoxie
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KS005097
  • User Pedon ID: 07KS005097
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 10607KS005-7555-004
  • Transect Stop Number - 7
  • Transect Interval - 9.1
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 07KS005097
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40848
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 39.5499992
  • Std. Longitude: -95.2666702
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6 S
  • Range: 19 E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: northeast corner
  • Map Unit: Sh—SHELBY CLAY LOAM, 5 TO 10 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-D2—Potter, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sarcoxie
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 36 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/2007
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 96 cm of Depth to 2Bt


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess over clayey drift
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/14/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 22
  • 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—49

    36—186

    —49—

    —150—
    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

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3766; observed in push tube
    A2—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3767; observed in push tube
    Bt1—36 to 49 centimeters (14.2 to 19.3 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3768; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 368881; continuous - phpvsfiid 368881
    Bt2—49 to 92 centimeters (19.3 to 36.2 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 40 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3769; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 368882; continuous - phpvsfiid 368882
    2Bt3—92 to 129 centimeters (36.2 to 50.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 45 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3770; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 368883; continuous - phpvsfiid 368883
    2Bt4—129 to 160 centimeters (50.8 to 63.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3771; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 368884; continuous - phpvsfiid 368884
    2Bt5—160 to 186 centimeters (63.0 to 73.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderately slow permeability; 25 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3772; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 368885; continuous - phpvsfiid 368885