IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Benfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 69KS161001
  • User Pedon ID: 69KS161001
  • 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 # - 69KS161001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40937
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 39.2330017
  • Std. Longitude: -96.6389160
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9 S
  • Range: 7 E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 1530 feet east and 40 feet north of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: 1530 feet east and 40 feet north of the southwest corner, Section 27, T9S, R7E
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS161—Riley
  • MLRA: 76—Bluestem Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS161—Riley County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Donald R. Jantz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mesic Udic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Benfield
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mesic Udic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/22/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: pedisediment derived from cherty limestone and/or residuum weathered from calcareous shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/22/2011 (entry creation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 23
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—43

    30—76

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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

    27

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    400

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    85

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior, black (10YR 2/1) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; hard, friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4879. There was one stone size coarse fragment in the pit.
    B1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior, moist; gravelly silty clay loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent by volume subangular 20-48-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4880
    B21t—30 to 43 centimeters (11.8 to 16.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct very dark brown (7.5YR 2/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-2-5 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4881. Chert fragments are concentrated in the upper part.; patchy - phpvsfiid 571436; patchy - phpvsfiid 571436
    B22t—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, moist; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4882. patchy - phpvsfiid 571434; patchy - phpvsfiid 571434
    B3ca—66 to 76 centimeters (26.0 to 29.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior and pale yellow (5Y 7/3) exterior, olive (5Y 5/3) exterior and dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent fine spherical carbonate nodules between peds; fragments; strong effervescence; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4883. patchy - phpvsfiid 571435; patchy - phpvsfiid 571435
    Cca—76 to 89 centimeters (29.9 to 35.0 inches); pale yellow (5Y 7/3) exterior, olive (5Y 5/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent fine irregular carbonate nodules between peds; fragments; violent effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4884
    R—89 to 112 centimeters (35.0 to 44.1 inches); pale yellow (5Y 7/3) exterior, olive (5Y 5/3) exterior, moist; weathered bedrock; fragments. this horizon was originally described as an R horizon 35 to 54 inches and partly weathered shale, the correlation sample is not cemented and the material slakes and this horizon should be described as another C horizon and will be submitted for texture analysis