IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Timken
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 71KS141017
  • User Pedon ID: 71KS141017
  • 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 # - 71KS141017
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40943
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 39.2135887
  • Std. Longitude: -98.5267105
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 S.
  • Range: 11 W.
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 2,245 feet south and 150 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: About 15.5 miles south and 9 miles east of Osborne, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Tb—TIMKEN-BOGUE CLAYS, 8 TO 30 PERCENT SLOPES2806—Timken-Bogue clays, 8 to 30 percent slopes
  • 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-B5—Meades Ranch, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Edward F. Fleming
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey, smectitic, mesic Typic Ustorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Timken
  • PSC - 25 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Timken
  • Classificaton Date - 7/29/2008
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from acid shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: 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 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    gypsum accumulations

    paralithic contact

    paralithic materials

    0—28

    10—

    41—

    41—

    —28—

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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

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), gray (2.5Y 5/1), dry; clay; moderate medium granular parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4895; observed in pit, small
    AC—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), gray (2.5Y 5/1), dry; clay; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 21.0 medium roots throughout and 21.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine threadlike gypsum masses; fragments; noneffervescent; neutral, pH 7.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4896; observed in pit, small
    C—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), gray (2.5Y 5/1), dry; clay; weak very fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium platy, and moderate fine platy structure; very hard, very firm; 1.0 medium roots in cracks and 10.0 fine roots in cracks; 1 percent threadlike gypsum masses; fragments; noneffervescent; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4897; observed in pit, small
    Cr—41 to 152 centimeters (16.1 to 59.8 inches); dark gray (2.5Y 4/1), gray (2.5Y 5/1), dry; bedrock; strong very coarse platy structure; very hard, very firm; 5 percent threadlike gypsum masses; fragments; noneffervescent; very strongly acid, pH 4.7.; observed in pit, small