IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Harney
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968KS051010
  • User Pedon ID: 68KS051010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1841
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35999
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 38.8699989
  • Std. Longitude: -99.2308350
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14S
  • Range: 17W
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 400 feet S and 1600 feet W of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Ellis County, KS.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS051—Ellis

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R.F. Harner, C.W. McBee
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Harney
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1968
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • 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 - crop cover
  • 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
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    1Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14667. 365; many fine roots
    1A12—13 to 18 centimeters (5.1 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak fine platy, and weak granular structure; hard, friable; 5.5 fine roots; worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14668. 366; many fine roots
    1B21t—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14669. 367; few worm casts concentrations; few fine roots
    1B22t—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay; moderate very fine and fine blocky structure; very hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14670. 368; shiny surfaces on faces of peds; few pockets of worm casts; few worm casts concentrations; few fine roots
    1B23t—43 to 63 centimeters (16.9 to 24.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; silty clay; weak coarse prismatic, and moderate fine and medium blocky structure; very hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14671. 369; shiny surfaces on faces of peds; few pockets of worm casts; few worm casts concentrations; few fine roots
    1B3ca—63 to 91 centimeters (24.8 to 35.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and weak medium blocky structure; hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; 11 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14672. 370; common carbonate concretions and threads; common carbonate concretions concentrations; few fine roots
    1C1ca—91 to 135 centimeters (35.8 to 53.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; structureless coarse prismatic, and weak medium blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; 11 percent carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14673. 371; common carbonate concretions and threads and films of carbonates; horizon contains one burrow about 15 cm in diameter filled with darker colored (10YR 3/2) and (10YR 4/2) moist material; common carbonate concretions concentrations; few fine roots
    1C2—135 to 183 centimeters (53.1 to 72.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; structureless massive; slightly hard, friable; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14674. 372; segregated lime in form of threads and films oriented vertically following root channels and structural faces