IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mento
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1968KS051013
  • User Pedon ID: 68KS051013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1877
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36035
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 38.9152794
  • Std. Longitude: -99.5575027
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13S
  • Range: 20W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 200 feet E and 600 feet N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Ellis County, KS.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS051—Ellis

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. F. Harner, J. M. Allen
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mento
  • 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: concave
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    58

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    12

    26

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    1Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak medium platy, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14968. 387; few fine roots
    1A12—15 to 23 centimeters (5.9 to 9.1 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14969. 388; common fine roots
    1B21t—23 to 36 centimeters (9.1 to 14.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic, and moderate medium blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14970. 389; few fine roots
    1B22t—36 to 43 centimeters (14.2 to 16.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A14971. few fine roots
    1B31ca—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14972. Many soft medium sized carbonate accumulations.; few fine roots
    1B32ca—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14973. Few coarse root channels filled with darker colored soil material; soft carbonate accumulations common but fewer and smaller than horizon above.; few very fine roots
    1C1ca—79 to 104 centimeters (31.1 to 40.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; structureless massive; hard, friable; 0.5 very fine roots; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A14974. 390; 1 quartz pebble; common threads and films of segregated lime.; few very fine roots
    2C2—104 to 150 centimeters (40.9 to 59.1 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/2) interior, light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, moist; clay loam; structureless massive; hard, friable; fragments; violent effervescence; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A14975. Porous.
    2C3—150 to 170 centimeters (59.1 to 66.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 8/3) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, moist; gravelly clay loam; structureless massive; hard, friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14976. Pebbles are mostly chalk or limestone; porous.
    2R—170 centimeters (66.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 40A14977. Chalk, level bedded, few joints, believed to be of the Niobrara formation.