IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kaskan
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08KS009002
  • User Pedon ID: 08KS009002
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 08KS009002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40869
  • Print Date: 11/27/2024

    • 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: 38.4930573
  • Std. Longitude: -98.5363922
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 18
  • Range: 11
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4
  • Map Unit: 5944—Saltcreek and Naron fine sandy loams, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS009—Barton
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS009—Barton County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gary Parks
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kaskan
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 28 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/17/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 13 percent of control section clay and 92 centimeters of depth to buried soil


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: drainageway, paleoterrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding for very brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/17/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 35
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—56

    92—

    —56—

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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

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    538

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    Ap1—0 to 16 centimeters (0.0 to 6.3 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; loam; 50 percent sand; 18 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 5 um/s; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4300; observed in push tube
    Ap2—16 to 28 centimeters (6.3 to 11.0 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; loam; 50 percent sand; 18 percent clay; weak medium angular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 5 um/s; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent prominent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, sand coats on top faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4301; observed in push tube. patchy - phpvsfiid 415275; patchy - phpvsfiid 415275
    Bw1—28 to 56 centimeters (11.0 to 22.0 inches);, 95 percent black (10YR 2/1) exterior and 5 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; fine sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 15 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 30 um/s; rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent fine faint spherical noncoherent cemented very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, worm casts with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4302; observed in push tube
    Bw2—56 to 92 centimeters (22.0 to 36.2 inches);, 90 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior and 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; fine sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 12 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 30 um/s; rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent fine faint spherical noncoherent cemented dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, worm casts with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4303; observed in push tube
    2Ab—92 to 115 centimeters (36.2 to 45.3 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; fine sandy loam; 65 percent sand; 12 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 10 um/s; rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent fine faint spherical noncoherent cemented very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, worm casts with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4304; observed in push tube
    2Bw—115 to 131 centimeters (45.3 to 51.6 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; fine sandy loam; 85 percent sand; 10 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 60 um/s; rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent fine faint spherical noncoherent cemented dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, worm casts with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4305; observed in push tube
    2C1—131 to 163 centimeters (51.6 to 64.2 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loamy fine sand; 80 percent sand; 8 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 50 um/s; rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 3.0 very fine high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4306; observed in push tube
    2C2—163 to 208 centimeters (64.2 to 81.9 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; fine sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 15 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 30 um/s; rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS4307; observed in push tube