IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Timken
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968KS051005
  • User Pedon ID: 68KS051005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1884
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36042
  • 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: 39.0872231
  • Std. Longitude: -99.1938858
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11S
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 2500 feet W and 650 feet S of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Ellis County, KS.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS051—Ellis

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: L. D. Zavesky, R. F. Harner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, montmorillonitic, mesic Typic Haplustolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Timken
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, montmorillonitic, mesic Typic Haplustolls
  • 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: moderately 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

    3

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    58

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    12

    26

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    1A11—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) interior, very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) interior, moist; silty clay; moderate fine granular structure; hard, firm; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A15011. many fine roots
    1A12—3 to 13 centimeters (1.2 to 5.1 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) interior, very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) interior, moist; clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 5.5 fine and medium roots; 0.5 tubular pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A15012. 406; many fine and medium roots
    1AC—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); gray (2.5Y 5/1) interior, very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) interior, moist; clay; weak fine blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A15013. 407; many fine roots
    1C—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches);, very dark gray (N 3/0) interior, moist; clay; moderate medium platy structure; very hard, firm; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A15014. Roots follow bedding planes; horizontal streaks of strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) moist.; many fine and medium roots
    1Cr—41 centimeters (16.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A15015. Coarse platy clay shale of Blue Hill member of Carlile formation.