IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shellabarger
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 76KS077001
  • User Pedon ID: 76KS077001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1822
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35980
  • 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: 37.3352778
  • Std. Longitude: -98.1850000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 31S
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 2000 feet S and 40 feet W of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Harper County, Kansas; about 6.5 miles north and 2 miles east of Attica, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: 5949—Shellabarger fine sandy loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS077—Harper
  • MLRA: 79—Great Bend Sand Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS077—Harper County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37098-C2—Crystal Springs, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Holzhey, M. Mausbach, R. Haberman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Udic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shellabarger
  • PSC - 43 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/18/2006
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shellabarger
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 145 cm of Depth to sand


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy and gravelly alluvium
  • Landscape: upland
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1976 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—43

    43—91

    —43—

    —48—
    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

    2

    —

    —

    488

    —

    270

    71

    —

    —

    14

    27

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/3) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) interior, moist; sandy loam; 62 percent sand; 11 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A4521. 76P0098. (old lab identifier)
    BA—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) interior, moist; sandy loam; 58 percent sand; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 11 percent fine worm casts; 1 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A4522. 76P0099. (old lab identifier)
    Bt1—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior, moist; sandy loam; 59 percent sand; 19 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 2 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A4523. 76P0100. (old lab identifier)
    Bt2—61 to 91 centimeters (24.0 to 35.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior, yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, moist; sandy clay loam; 57 percent sand; 23 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A4524. 76P0101. (old lab identifier)
    C1—91 to 145 centimeters (35.8 to 57.1 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) interior, yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior, moist; coarse sandy loam; 78 percent sand; 12 percent clay; structureless massive; soft, friable; 1 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments and 4 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A4525
    C2—145 to 203 centimeters (57.1 to 79.9 inches); 75 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and 25 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, 75 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior and 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, moist; coarse sand, sand; 93 percent sand; 4 percent clay; structureless single grain; loose; 2 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 5-?-20 millimeter mixed fragments and 7 percent by volume nonflat well rounded indurated 2-?-5 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A4528