IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bucyrus
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 09KS121002
  • User Pedon ID: 09KS121002
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 09KS121002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40896
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 15 S
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: 600 feet south and 300 feet west of the southeast corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS121—Miami
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS121—Miami County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: MAA & RGC
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bucyrus
  • PSC - 56 to 200 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/22/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey residuum weathered from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: limestone and shale
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/22/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—40

    56—200

    —40—

    —144—
    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

    4

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4387; observed in push tube
    A1—10 to 25 centimeters (3.9 to 9.8 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4388; observed in push tube
    A2—25 to 40 centimeters (9.8 to 15.7 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4389; observed in push tube
    BA—40 to 56 centimeters (15.7 to 22.0 inches); 70 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 30 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay; 43 percent clay; 20 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) fine distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4390; observed in push tube
    Bt1—56 to 100 centimeters (22.0 to 39.4 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay; 46 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fine roots throughout; 40 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4391; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 463288; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 463288
    Bt2—100 to 152 centimeters (39.4 to 59.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay; 52 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, very firm; fine roots throughout; 35 percent prominent brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries on faces of peds and 20 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4392; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 463289; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 463289
    Bt3—152 to 200 centimeters (59.8 to 78.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silty clay; 54 percent clay; hard, very firm; 10 percent prominent brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries on faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS4393; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 463290; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 463290