IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kipson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 69KS127017
  • User Pedon ID: 69KS127017
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory PedonsPedons to KSU 4/29/2011
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 69KS127017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40936
  • 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: 38.6240005
  • Std. Longitude: -96.9006653
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16 S.
  • Range: 5 E.
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 2330 feet west and 75 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: Approximately 20 miles west of Council Grove, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: 4725—Kipson-Sogn complex, 5 to 30 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS127—Morris
  • MLRA: 76—Bluestem Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS127—Morris County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Wesley Barker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic, shallow Udorthentic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kipson
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic, shallow Udorthentic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/21/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from calcareous shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent shale, calcareous at 48cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/21/2011 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—20

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    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

    12

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    448

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    290

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    A 1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4898. common very fine and fine roots
    AC—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 very fine and fine roots; 10 percent by volume weakly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4899. common very fine and fine roots
    C—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) exterior and yellow (10YR 7/6) exterior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, moist; channery silty clay loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 very fine and fine roots; 30 percent by volume weakly coherent cemented 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4900
    Cr—48 to 152 centimeters (18.9 to 59.8 inches); 50 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/4) interior and 50 percent yellow (10YR 7/6) interior bedrock; fragments.