IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Unnamed
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1963KS015002
  • User Pedon ID: 63KS015002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1882
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36040
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 37.8130569
  • Std. Longitude: -96.7900009
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26S
  • Range: 6E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 900 feet N and 300 feet W of the SE corner
  • Location Description: Butler County, KS.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS015—Butler

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. L. Penner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, mixed Lithic Haplustolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Unnamed
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, mixed Lithic Haplustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1963 (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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    3

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    81

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    14

    27

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    1A1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, black (10YR 2/1) interior, moist; silty clay loam; strong fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A15004. 18448; upper 1/2" slightly bleached and grade of structure somewhat weaker.
    1Bt—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, black (10YR 2/1) interior, moist; silty clay loam; strong fine and medium granular structure; hard, friable; fragments; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A15005. 18449; few limestone rocks 4 to 7" in diameter occur as loose rock; roots concentrated on contace surface limestone.
    1R—25 centimeters (9.8 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A15006. Somewhat weathered, level bedded earthy limestone of the Fort Riley formation.