IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Gilliam
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2009MO165009
  • User Pedon ID: 2009MO165009
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0916509
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 30079
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 39.4900833
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0618611
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS005—Atchison
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS005—Atchison County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-D1—Oak Mills, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Kim Worth
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mesic Fluvaquentic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Missouri Pedon
  • Pedon #: 9
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Gilliam
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - N/a
  • Classificaton Date - 4/23/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods begining in may
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Stage formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/23/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39095d1
  • Surface Water Kind: flooded
  • Surface Water Depth: 15
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion sheet
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    aquic conditions

    0—18

    18—91

    18—183

    —18—

    —73—

    —165—
    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

    0

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    —

    234.4

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) crushed silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine low-continuity irregular and 0.5 fine low-continuity irregular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU030493; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—18 to 41 centimeters (7.1 to 16.1 inches); 60 percent very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) broken face and 40 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) broken face silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine low-continuity irregular and 0.5 fine low-continuity irregular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU030494; observed in pit, small
    Bw2—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face silt loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine roots throughout; 0.5 very fine low-continuity irregular and 0.5 fine low-continuity irregular pores; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU030495; observed in pit, small
    Bw3—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); 80 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face and 20 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) broken face silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 very fine low-continuity irregular and 0.5 fine low-continuity irregular pores; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU030496; observed in pit, small
    C1—91 to 137 centimeters (35.8 to 53.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face silt loam; 10 percent clay; massive; firm; 0.5 very fine low-continuity irregular and 0.5 medium low-continuity irregular and 0.5 fine low-continuity irregular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU030497; observed in pit, small
    C2—137 to 160 centimeters (53.9 to 63.0 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1) broken face silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; massive; very firm; 0.5 very fine low-continuity irregular and 0.5 medium low-continuity irregular and 0.5 fine low-continuity irregular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MU030498; observed in pit, small
    C3—160 to 183 centimeters (63.0 to 72.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) broken face silty clay loam; 31 percent clay; massive; firm; 0.5 very fine low-continuity irregular and 0.5 medium low-continuity irregular and 0.5 fine low-continuity irregular pores; 1 percent medium faint irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6), moist, iron depletions with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # MU030499; observed in pit, small