IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pawnee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 07KS005505
  • User Pedon ID: 07KS005505
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 07KS005505
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40851
  • Print Date: 4/29/2025

    • 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: 39.4427795
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3441696
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7 S.
  • Range: 19 E.
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet east and 2100 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: Pc—PAWNEE CLAY LOAM, 3 TO 7 PERCENT SLOPES7502—Pawnee clay loam, 3 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-D3—Nortonville, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Gienger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pawnee
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 17 to 67 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/22/2007
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy subglacial till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/22/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 15
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    ochric epipedon

    redox concentrations

    argillic horizon

    0—17

    17—

    17—

    0—17—

    17—-

    17—-
    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

    5

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    —

    335

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    325

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior clay loam; 28 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3719; observed in shovel slice
    BA—10 to 17 centimeters (3.9 to 6.7 inches); 90 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and 10 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent distinct clay films on rock fragments; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3720; observed in shovel slice. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 356371; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 356371
    Bt1—17 to 43 centimeters (6.7 to 16.9 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine distinct spherical strongly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules throughout and 8 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; 3 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 356372; continuous - phpvsfiid 356372
    Bt2—43 to 62 centimeters (16.9 to 24.4 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) exterior clay; 40 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct spherical strongly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese nodules throughout and 25 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; 2 percent by volume nonflat subrounded strongly coherent cemented 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments.; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 356373; continuous - phpvsfiid 356373