IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Girard
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1969KS037006
  • User Pedon ID: 1969KS037006
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 69KS037006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40932
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 37.4375801
  • Std. Longitude: -94.8502274
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30S
  • Range: 23E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet south and 300 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: 8050—Girard silty clay loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes, frequently flooded
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS037—Crawford
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS037—Crawford County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37094-D7—Radley, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Donald E. Rott
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, thermic Vertic Epiaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Girard (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 10 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/17/2015
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Girard (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, superactive, thermic Vertic Epiaquolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1969
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: drainageway, flood plain
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for very brief periods
  • Bedrock: at 86cm
  • Geology: Marmaton formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R112XY004KS Clay Lowland (PE 35-42)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1969 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

    0 - 86

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

    mollic epipedon

    0—86

    —86—
    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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    265

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    1143

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    4

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior, dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior, dry; silty clay loam; weak medium granular structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4767
    A2—15 to 43 centimeters (5.9 to 16.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) exterior, dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4768. few shiny ped surfaces
    BA—43 to 71 centimeters (16.9 to 28.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) exterior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior, dry; silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4769. few shiny ped surfaces
    Bg—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior, dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior, dry; silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1 percent faint clay films; 1 percent fine black (N 2/) iron-manganese concretions throughout and 10 percent fine prominent irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) iron-manganese masses with diffuse boundaries; 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded indurated 2-3-5 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4770. few rounded concretionary nodules that do not react to 10 percent hydrochloric acid; shiny ped surfaces.; patchy - phpvsfiid 1258044; patchy - phpvsfiid 1258044
    R—86 to 100 centimeters (33.9 to 39.4 inches); bedrock; fragments. Pennsylvannian age limestone with many joints and bedding planes.