IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Zaar
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1969KS037015
  • User Pedon ID: 1969KS037015
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory PedonsMLRA 112 - SDJR Zaar
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 69KS037015
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40934
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 37.5281448
  • Std. Longitude: -94.8477859
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 29S
  • Range: 23E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 1150 feet east and 60 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: 8991—Zaar silty clay, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS037—Crawford
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS037—Crawford County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37094-E7—Girard, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Donald E. Rott
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Zaar (flagged as OSD)
  • Classificaton Date - 11/4/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Zaar
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1969
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Marmaton Group 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
    R112XY007KS Clay Upland (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 - pastureland, tame
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    slickensides

    0—96

    40—96

    66—134

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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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    282

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    1143

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    14

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) exterior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior, dry; silty clay; weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; hard, firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4777
    A—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches); black (10YR 2/1) exterior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior, dry; silty clay; weak coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 5 percent pressure faces; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4778. few shiny ped faces
    Bw1—40 to 66 centimeters (15.7 to 26.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) exterior, dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) exterior, dry; clay; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm; 1 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4779
    Bw2—66 to 96 centimeters (26.0 to 37.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) exterior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior, dry; clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm; 1 percent slickensides (geogenic); 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 5 percent fine distinct light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) iron-manganese masses; fragments; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4780
    BC—96 to 134 centimeters (37.8 to 52.8 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) exterior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior, dry; clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm; 3 percent slickensides (geogenic); 5 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; 3 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4781
    C—134 to 152 centimeters (52.8 to 59.8 inches);, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior, dry; silty clay; massive; extremely hard, extremely firm; 2 percent organic stains; 1 percent fine black (10YR 2/1) iron-manganese concretions and 15 percent coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; 2-4-6 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS4782. in lower part of horizon