IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): New Cambria
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 71KS141013
  • User Pedon ID: 71KS141013
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 71KS141013
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40942
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 39.3821831
  • Std. Longitude: -98.6200714
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8
  • Range: 12
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: SW
  • Location Description: Representative profile of New Cambria silty clay, about 1,000 feet north and 100 feet east of the southwest corner.
  • Map Unit: 2366—New Cambria silty clay, rarely flooded
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS141—Osborne
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS141—Osborne County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39098-D5—Downs South, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Edward F. Fleming
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - New Cambria
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - New Cambria
  • Classificaton Date - 7/29/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/29/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—102

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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
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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silty clay; moderate medium granular structure; very hard, firm; 21.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4471
    A1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), moist; silty clay; moderate medium granular parts to moderate fine granular structure; very hard, firm; 21.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4472
    B2—28 to 76 centimeters (11.0 to 29.9 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1), moist; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4473
    C1—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4474
    C2—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 21.0 fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular weakly coherent cemented carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1. Lab sample # KSUSS4475