IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Corinth
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968KS051002
  • User Pedon ID: 68KS051002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1873
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36031
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 39.0247231
  • Std. Longitude: -99.0855560
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 16W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 700 feet W and 450 feet N of center
  • Location Description: Ellis County, KS.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS051—Ellis

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C.W. McBee, L.D. Zavesky
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Ustochrepts
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Corinth
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Ustochrepts
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1968 (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

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    58

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    12

    26

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    1A11—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; hard, firm; 5.5 fine roots; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14940. few worm casts concentrations; many fine roots
    1A12—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 5.5 roots; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14941. few flat pieces of calcite; few worm casts concentrations; many roots
    1B21—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 5.5 roots; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14942. 351; few flat pieces of calcite; few worm casts concentrations; many roots
    1B22—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) interior, light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 0.5 roots; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14943. 352; few soft platy fragments of calcareous shale; few flat pieces of calcite; few roots
    1C1—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches);, brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior and gray (10YR 5/1) interior, dry; 0.5 roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14944. 353; dry weathered shale of Fairport chalky shale member of the Carlile formation; material crushes to silty clay loam texture; color variation is in horizontal bands following shale structure; few roots
    1C2—76 to 119 centimeters (29.9 to 46.9 inches);, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior and brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dry; 0.5 roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A14945. weathered platy shale; many thin seams of light gray (N 7/1) gypsum; few roots