IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Verdigris
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1984KS125002
  • User Pedon ID: 84KS125002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84P0828
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 55066
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 37.2836113
  • Std. Longitude: -95.9175034
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 32S
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 660 m. S and 700 m. E of NW corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS125—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Haberman, S. P. Graber, and E. L. Fleming
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, thermic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Verdigris
  • PSC - 25 to 97 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Verdigris
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, thermic Cumulic Hapludoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1984
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: very low
  • Flooding: frequent flooding for long periods
  • 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 - 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

    0—175

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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

    1

    —

    —

    260

    —

    95

    —

    —

    15

    27

    4

    16

    28

    5

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    —

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    1Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate medium angular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P04695; moist when described;. common fine roots throughout
    1A1—20 to 55 centimeters (7.9 to 21.7 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine spherical worm casts; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P04696; moist when described;. few fine worm casts concentrations; few fine roots throughout
    1A2—55 to 97 centimeters (21.7 to 38.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; silt loam; moderate medium granular, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine spherical worm casts; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P04697; moist when described;. few fine worm casts concentrations; few fine roots throughout
    1A3—97 to 175 centimeters (38.2 to 68.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine spherical worm casts; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 84P04698; moist when described;. few fine worm casts concentrations; few fine roots throughout
    1AC—175 to 192 centimeters (68.9 to 75.6 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dry; silty clay loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.5 fine tubular pores; 1 percent fine spherical worm casts; fragments. Lab sample # 84P04699; moist when described;. few fine worm casts concentrations; few fine roots throughout; few fine faint 10YR44 mottles