IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Aliceville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2007KS139100
  • User Pedon ID: 2007KS139100
  • 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 # - 07N0577
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 19113
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 38.5269444
  • Std. Longitude: -95.7561111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 17 S
  • Range: 15 E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 2450 feet west and 2030 feet north of the southeast corner of
  • Location Description: Approximately 6 miles south and 4 miles west of Lyndon, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Lu—LULA SILT LOAM, 1 TO 3 PERCENT SLOPES8797—Lula silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes8609—Aliceville silty clay loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS139—Osage
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS139—Osage County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38095-E7—Osage City SE, 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 - 29 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/24/2012
  • 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

    slickensides

    lithic contact

    0—41

    29—106

    41—99

    60—106

    106—200

    —41—

    —77—

    —58—

    —46—

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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

    1

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    330

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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) broken face silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; 5.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—7 to 18 centimeters (2.8 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    AB—18 to 29 centimeters (7.1 to 11.4 inches); 60 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face and 40 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) broken face silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—29 to 41 centimeters (11.4 to 16.1 inches); 60 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) broken face and 40 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face silty clay; 42 percent clay; weak fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 365746; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 365746
    Bt2—41 to 60 centimeters (16.1 to 23.6 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face silty clay; 47 percent clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine roots throughout; 50 percent distinct dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented N 2.5/1 (N 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 365747; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 365747
    Btss1—60 to 99 centimeters (23.6 to 39.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) broken face silty clay; 50 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 20 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 60 percent distinct dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented N 2.5/1 (N 2.5/1), moist, manganese masses with diffuse boundaries on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 365748; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 365748
    Btss2—99 to 106 centimeters (39.0 to 41.7 inches); 80 percent reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) broken face and 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) broken face clay; 55 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 very fine roots between peds; 40 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 50 percent distinct dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 5-50-75 millimeter chert fragments and 4 percent by volume nonflat subrounded indurated 2-4-5 millimeter chert fragments; abrupt wavy boundary.; moist when described; observed in pit, small. 1 crack filled with organic stained material.; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 365761; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 365761
    R—106 to 200 centimeters (41.7 to 78.7 inches); bedrock; fragments.