IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Funmar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08KS159040
  • User Pedon ID: 08KS159040
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 08KS159040
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40883
  • Print Date: 4/9/2025
  • 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: 38.3610268
  • Std. Longitude: -98.4001999
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 19
  • Range: 10W
  • Section: 35
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4
  • Map Unit: 5891—Farnum fine sandy loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS159—Rice
  • MLRA: 79—Great Bend Sand Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS159—Rice County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38098-C4—Raymond, Kansas
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Gary Parks
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Funmar
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 26 to 76 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/15/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 24 percent of control section clay


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: paleoterrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/15/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 22
  • 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
  • Yield Study ID -
  • 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

    1

    532

    90

    Ap1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; fine sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 12 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 30 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4021; observed in push tube
    Ap2—15 to 26 centimeters (5.9 to 10.2 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior, moist; fine sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 18 percent clay; weak medium angular blocky parts to weak fine angular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 10 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine high-continuity dendritic tubular and 2.0 fine high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4022; observed in push tube
    Bt1—26 to 39 centimeters (10.2 to 15.4 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; sandy clay loam; 65 percent sand; 24 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 9 um/s; moderately rapid permeability; low excavation difficulty; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4023; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 439089; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 439089
    Bt2—39 to 52 centimeters (15.4 to 20.5 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed, moist; sandy clay loam; 65 percent sand; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 9 um/s; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4024; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 439090; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 439090
    2Ab—52 to 90 centimeters (20.5 to 35.4 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; loam; 45 percent sand; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; Ksat of 2.5 um/s; moderate permeability; low excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4025; observed in push tube
    2Btb—90 to 130 centimeters (35.4 to 51.2 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, moist; clay loam; 40 percent sand; 30 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; Ksat of 1 um/s; moderately slow permeability; low excavation difficulty; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine high-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS4026; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 439091; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 439091