IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Goessel
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 77KS113001
  • User Pedon ID: 77KS113001
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 77KS113001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40953
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 38.2395210
  • Std. Longitude: -97.3987885
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T. 12 S.
  • Range: R. 1 W.
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: 2490 feet west and 2640 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: About 6 miles east and 2.5 miles north of Moundridge, Kansas.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS113—McPherson
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS113—McPherson County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38097-B4—Hesston, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Harold Penner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Haplusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Goessel
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Haplusterts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/12/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: occasional ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/12/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); silty clay; moderate fine granular structure; very hard, very firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4447
    A—18 to 36 centimeters (7.1 to 14.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior, black (10YR 2/1) exterior, moist; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4448
    AC1—36 to 64 centimeters (14.2 to 25.2 inches); 50 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior and 50 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) exterior, 50 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior and 50 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) exterior, moist; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4449
    AC2—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior, moist; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 2 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent fine carbonate masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4450
    AC3—89 to 127 centimeters (35.0 to 50.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior, moist; silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 2 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 2 percent fine distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 2 percent fine carbonate masses; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS4451
    C—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) exterior, dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior, moist; silty clay; massive; extremely hard, very firm; 2 percent fine distinct light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 6 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent fine carbonate masses; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS4452