IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): cass
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 10KS157002
  • User Pedon ID: 10KS157002
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 10KS157002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40924
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 39.6715851
  • Std. Longitude: -97.7831650
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4 S.
  • Range: 4 W.
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4 of the corner
  • 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: J. Anderson, J. Gienger, and D. Wood
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Fluventic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - cass
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Munjor
  • Classificaton Date - 10/16/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 47 percent of Control Section Sand and 6.1 percent of Control Section Clay and 60 cm of Top effervescence and 90 cm of Bottom effervescence


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-loamy alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/16/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 55
  • 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
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—38

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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

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    426

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    360

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    Ap—0 to 38 centimeters (0.0 to 15.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; sandy loam; 75 percent sand; 11 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4602; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C1—38 to 50 centimeters (15.0 to 19.7 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; loamy sand; 85 percent sand; 8 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4603
    C2—50 to 60 centimeters (19.7 to 23.6 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loamy fine sand; 85 percent sand; 6 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4604
    Bkb—60 to 90 centimeters (23.6 to 35.4 inches);, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; very fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 9 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 4 percent fine distinct threadlike masses of oxidized iron throughout; 2 percent fine faint threadlike carbonate masses on surfaces along root channels; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4605. Noted redoximorphic concentraions; however, it is under irrigation
    C'1—90 to 115 centimeters (35.4 to 45.3 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; sand; 95 percent sand; 3 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4606
    C'2—115 to 145 centimeters (45.3 to 57.1 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; coarse sand; 99 percent sand; 1 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3 percent by volume mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4607
    C'3—145 to 180 centimeters (57.1 to 70.9 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loamy very fine sand; 85 percent sand; 7 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4608
    C'4—180 to 200 centimeters (70.9 to 78.7 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; loamy sand; 83 percent sand; 4 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS4609. Coarse sand continue 200+cm.