IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Detroit
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08KS157002
  • User Pedon ID: 08KS157002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 08KS157002
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 08KS157002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40881
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.7125015
  • Std. Longitude: -97.7644424
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4 S.
  • Range: 4 W.
  • Section: 9
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/2 of the corner
  • Location Description: 286 feet North and 350 feet West
  • Map Unit: Dt—DETROIT SILTY CLAY LOAM, RARELY FLOODED
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS157—Republic
  • MLRA: 74—Central Kansas Sandstone Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS157—Republic County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39097-F7—Kackley, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Wood and J. Gienger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Detroit
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/19/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 40 percent of Control Section Clay


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: rare flooding for very brief periods
  • Ponding: rare ponding for very brief periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/19/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 48
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    DISP

    Distichlis spicata

    saltgrass

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    redox concentrations

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—66

    41—

    41—

    122—

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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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    437

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    158

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    Ap—0 to 22 centimeters (0.0 to 8.7 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4212; observed in push tube
    A—22 to 41 centimeters (8.7 to 16.1 inches);, black (10YR 2/1) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4213; observed in push tube
    Bt1—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 30 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4214; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 420526; continuous - phpvsfiid 420526
    Bt2—66 to 94 centimeters (26.0 to 37.0 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silty clay; 42 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2 percent distinct very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, organic stains on surfaces along root channels and 15 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct spherical black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses throughout and 15 percent medium prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4215; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 420527; continuous - phpvsfiid 420528; continuous - phpvsfiid 420527; continuous - phpvsfiid 420528
    Bt3—94 to 122 centimeters (37.0 to 48.0 inches);, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior, moist; silty clay; 45 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1 percent distinct very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, organic stains on surfaces along root channels and 20 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine distinct irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4216; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 420529; continuous - phpvsfiid 420530; continuous - phpvsfiid 420529; continuous - phpvsfiid 420530
    Btk1—122 to 153 centimeters (48.0 to 60.2 inches);, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior, moist; silty clay; 42 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 10 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 3 percent fine distinct threadlike noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, carbonate masses on surfaces along pores and 2 percent medium distinct irregular strongly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, carbonate nodules in cracks; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4217; observed in push tube. The secondary carbonate noduals were located at the bottom of the horizons in voids.; continuous - phpvsfiid 420532; continuous - phpvsfiid 420532
    Btk2—153 to 183 centimeters (60.2 to 72.0 inches);, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; moderately hard, firm, very sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent distinct grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 5 percent fine distinct threadlike noncoherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/1), moist, carbonate masses on surfaces along pores; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS4218; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 420534; continuous - phpvsfiid 420534