IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pawnee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08KS005011
  • User Pedon ID: 08KS005011
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 08KS005011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40866
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024
  • 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: 39.5488319
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3875580
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6 S.
  • Range: 18 E.
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 900 feet south & 1050 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: Sm—SHELBY CLAY LOAM, 7 TO 15 PERCENT SLOPES, ERODED7586—Shelby clay loam, 7 to 15 percent slopes, eroded
  • 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-E4—Effingham, Kansas
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans & J. Gienger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, 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, mixed, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 8 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/19/2007
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 3
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey 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: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/19/2007 (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

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    secondary carbonates

    0—8

    8—

    8—80

    45—

    —8—

    8—-

    —72—

    45—-

    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

    6

    326

    45

    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior clay loam; 30 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3978; observed in push tube
    Bt1—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior clay loam; 36 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 faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3979; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 385887; continuous - phpvsfiid 385887
    Bt2—20 to 45 centimeters (7.9 to 17.7 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior clay; 40 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3980; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 385888; continuous - phpvsfiid 385888
    Btk1—45 to 80 centimeters (17.7 to 31.5 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) exterior clay; 40 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; 4 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, iron-manganese masses in matrix; 1 percent coarse prominent irregular moderately coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate nodules in cracks and 6 percent fine distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate nodules throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3981; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 385889; continuous - phpvsfiid 385889
    Btk2—80 to 95 centimeters (31.5 to 37.4 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) exterior clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate nodules throughout; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3982; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 385890; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 385890
    Btk3—95 to 105 centimeters (37.4 to 41.3 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior clay loam; 36 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 6 percent distinct organoargillans on vertical faces of peds and 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate nodules throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3983; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 385892; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 385891; continuous - phpvsfiid 385892; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 385891