IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sogn
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1988KS061063
  • User Pedon ID: 1988KS061063
  • User Site Association ID: KS061 Geary County Type LocationsKansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88KS061063
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40961
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 39.0150000
  • Std. Longitude: -96.6494444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 S.
  • Range: 7 E.
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 300 feet east and 50 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Geary County, Kansas; about 10 miles east and 1 mile south of Juction City.
  • Map Unit: Cf—CLIME-SOGN SILTY CLAY LOAMS, 5 TO 20 PERCENT SLOPES4590—Clime-Sogn complex, 3 to 20 percent slopes4590—Clime-Sogn complex, 3 to 20 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS061—Geary
  • MLRA: 76—Bluestem Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS061—Geary County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39096-A6—Ogden, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. Campbell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sogn (flagged as OSD)
  • PSC - 0 to 23 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/2013
  • Classifier - Wehmueller
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sogn
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Lithic Haplustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/1988
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, unspecified at 23cm with 45 to <100
  • Geology: Chase Group group .
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/20/1988 (actual site observation 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    lithic contact

    0—23

    23—30

    —23—

    —23—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    420

    —

    180

    820

    —

    181

    11.8

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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1), black (10YR 2/1), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; hard, friable; 8.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 10 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2847. needs pH run and more detail on coarse frags, also possible two horizons since field note talks about slight eff in upper part strong in lower
    R—23 to 100 centimeters (9.1 to 39.4 inches); fragments. level-bedded indurated limestone that has joints averaging about 18 inches apart and less than 1/4 inch wide