IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clareson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1969KS037016
  • User Pedon ID: 1969KS037016
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory PedonsPedons to KSU 4/29/2011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 69KS037016
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40935
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 37.6183052
  • Std. Longitude: -94.7039413
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28 S.
  • Range: 25 E.
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 1100 feet north and 150 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Aprproximately 4 miles west and 1.75 miles south of Arcadia, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Cf—CLARESON FLAGGY SILTY CLAY LOAM, 0 TO 3 PERCENT SLOPES8657—Clareson stony silty clay loam, 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-E6—Arma, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Donald E. Rott
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clareson (flagged as OSD)
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey-skeletal, mixed, superactive, thermic Typic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 36 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1969
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - typic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent limestone, unspecified at 76cm
  • 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:
  • 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

    76 - 200

    - 124 -

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—36

    36—64

    76—200

    —36—

    —28—

    —124—
    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

    2

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    290

    —

    190

    1143

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    14

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, dry; stony silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; hard, friable; 6.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded 150-200-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 15 percent by volume flat subrounded 380-490-600 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4858. slightly acid
    BA—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; hard, firm; 3.0 fine roots; 5 percent by volume flat subrounded 2-75-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4859. moderately acid
    Bt—36 to 64 centimeters (14.2 to 25.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) exterior, reddish brown (5YR 4/3) exterior, dry; very flaggy silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions; 15 percent by volume flat subangular indurated 2-75-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume flat subrounded indurated 150-200-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4860. moderately acid
    BC—64 to 76 centimeters (25.2 to 29.9 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) exterior, reddish brown (5YR 4/3) exterior, dry; very flaggy silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 2 percent fine black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions and 5 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; 55 percent by volume 150-200-380 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4861. neutral
    R—76 to 200 centimeters (29.9 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments. hard limestone bedrock