IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aliceville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007KS059101
  • User Pedon ID: 2007KS059101
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 112 2007 Samples Wagstaff Aliceville Bucyrus ProjectNewtonia/Lula/Catoosa07MLRA 112 Wagstaff Catoosa projectMLRA 112 Aliceville Lula project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - NSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 07N0574
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19110
  • 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: 38.6463889
  • Std. Longitude: -95.4516667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16 S
  • Range: 18 E
  • Section: 20
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet south and 300 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Approximately 2.5 miles north of Pomona, Kansas, on the Lloyd Robbins Farm.
  • Map Unit: Lo—LULA SILT LOAM, 0 TO 2 PERCENT SLOPES8795—Lula silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopesMT250B—Aliceville silty clay loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes8609—Aliceville silty clay loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS059—Franklin
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS059—Franklin County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38095-F4—Ottawa NW, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mark Abney, Sheila Staton-Clifton, Katie Philbrick, Wm. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Aliceville
  • PSC - 21 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2012
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lula
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/2007
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from cherty limestone
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated limestone, cherty at 106cm
  • 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
    R112XY015KS Loamy Upland (Draft) (PE 35-42)

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/19/2007 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    106 - 200

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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    redox concentrations

    lithic contact

    0—36

    21—106

    36—106

    106—200

    —36—

    —85—

    —70—

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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

    2

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    315

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    180

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    Ap1—0 to 7 centimeters (0.0 to 2.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 very fine roots throughout and 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—7 to 21 centimeters (2.8 to 8.3 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    BA—21 to 36 centimeters (8.3 to 14.2 inches); 50 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) and 50 percent very dark gray (7.5YR 3/1) silty clay; 42 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 365515; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 365515
    Bt1—36 to 59 centimeters (14.2 to 23.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay; 50 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 40 percent faint dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine prominent spherical noncoherent cemented N 2.5/1 (N 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 365516; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 365516
    Bt2—59 to 89 centimeters (23.2 to 35.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay; 42 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 55 percent faint dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented N 2.5/1 (N 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries throughout and 5 percent fine prominent spherical noncoherent cemented N 2.5/1 (N 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses with clear boundaries throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 365517; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 365517
    Bt3—89 to 106 centimeters (35.0 to 41.7 inches); 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and 20 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) silty clay; 50 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 30 percent prominent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist, and brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented N 2.5/1 (N 2.5/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries throughout and 10 percent fine prominent spherical noncoherent cemented N 2.5/1 (N 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses with clear boundaries throughout; 5 percent by volume nonflat subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-3-5 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 365518; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 365518
    R—106 to 200 centimeters (41.7 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small