IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bigbow
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 08KS175320
  • User Pedon ID: 08KS175320
  • User Site Association ID: 08mlra77e-Dalhart KS17508mlra77e-DalhartKansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 7708KS175-5217-2
  • Transect Stop Number - 10
  • Transect Interval - 171.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 08KS175320
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40888
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 37.1546097
  • Std. Longitude: -100.6710815
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 33s
  • Range: 31w
  • Section: 26
  • Location Description: 89 meters south and 65 meters east of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: 5217—Dalhart fine sandy loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS175—Seward
  • MLRA: 77E—Southern High Plains, Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS175—Seward County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37100-B6—Kismet, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Tom Cochran
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: family
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bigbow
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Haplustalfs
  • PSC - 14 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/20/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy eolian deposits
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/20/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 36
  • 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

    secondary carbonates

    lithologic discontinuity

    lithologic discontinuity

    0—14

    14—87

    87—230

    87—

    185—

    —14—

    —73—

    —143—

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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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    —

    834.2

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    0

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    Ap—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; loamy fine sand; 6 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4233; observed in push tube. This pedon had unmistakeable mollic color to 13 cm. With mixing to 18 cm, I decided this pedon would make mollic criteria.
    Bt1—14 to 57 centimeters (5.5 to 22.4 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face, moist; fine sandy loam; 17 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent faint clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4234; observed in push tube. This pedon had unmistakeable mollic color to 13 cm. With mixing to 18 cm, I decided this pedon would make mollic criteria.; patchy - phpvsfiid 401904; patchy - phpvsfiid 401904
    Bt2—57 to 87 centimeters (22.4 to 34.3 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face, moist; clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, very plastic; moderately slow permeability; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 401905; continuous - phpvsfiid 401905
    2Bk1—87 to 185 centimeters (34.3 to 72.8 inches);, brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face, moist; silt loam; 18 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 2 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses in matrix and 2 percent medium spherical carbonate nodules in matrix and 4 percent medium irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in push tube
    3Bk2—185 to 230 centimeters (72.8 to 90.6 inches);, strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face, moist; loam; 16 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 2 percent coarse spherical carbonate nodules in matrix and 4 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses in matrix and 3 percent medium irregular carbonate masses in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in push tube