IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ringo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984KS037001
  • User Pedon ID: 84KS037001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1984KS037001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0824
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55062
  • Print Date: 3/13/2025

    • 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: 37.5958328
  • Std. Longitude: -94.7908325
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28S
  • Range: 24E
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 490 meters S and 450 meters E of the NW corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS037—Crawford
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. D. Owens, S. P. Graber, and E. L. Fleming
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, thermic Entic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ringo
  • PSC - 20 to 64 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ringo
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, thermic Entic Hapludoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: frequent flooding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1984 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ANGE

    SONU2

    Andropogon gerardii

    Sorghastrum nutans

    big bluestem

    Indiangrass

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—47

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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

    7

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    300

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    90

    100

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    14

    23

    2

    15

    24

    3

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    1A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dry; silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 5.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; 11 percent fine spherical worm casts; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P04670; moist when described;. common fine worm casts concentrations; many very fine and fine roots throughout
    1Bw1—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dry; silty clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 11 percent spherical worm casts and 1 percent spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P04671; moist when described;. Few fine concretions.; common worm casts concentrations; few lime concretions concentrations; few fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1Bw2—40 to 47 centimeters (15.7 to 18.5 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, dry; silty clay; strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 11 percent spherical worm casts and 1 percent spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P04672; moist when described;. Few fine black concretions.; common worm casts concentrations; few lime concretions concentrations; few fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1BC—47 to 64 centimeters (18.5 to 25.2 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior, grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent spherical carbonate masses; 12 percent by volume 75-162-250 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 84P04673; moist when described;. few soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous
    1CR—64 to 80 centimeters (25.2 to 31.5 inches); unweathered bedrock; 0.5 fine roots in cracks; 1 percent spherical carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified.; moist when described;. Gray, calcareous shale. Not sampled.; few soft masses of carbonate concentrations; few fine roots in cracks; effervescence is continuous