IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Kenoma
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985KS001001
  • User Pedon ID: 85KS001001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0026
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57281
  • Print Date: 4/24/2025

    • 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: 37.9280548
  • Std. Longitude: -95.2636108
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 24S
  • Range: 19E
  • Section: 25
  • PLSS Details: 1040 feet north and 2270 feet east of the SW corner of the SE quarter
  • Location Description: R12E entered from description changed to R19E.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS001—Allen
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. W. Swanson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Kenoma
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kenoma
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, thermic Vertic Argiudoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1985 (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

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    0—56

    20—86

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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

    2

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    308

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    90

    102

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    16

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    1Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky; 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P00105; moist when described;. common fine roots throughout
    1Bt1—20 to 56 centimeters (7.9 to 22.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silty clay; 11 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) fine faint mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P00106; moist when described;. few fine roots throughout; common fine faint 10YR34 mottles
    1Bt2—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay; 11 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) fine distinct and 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent medium spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P00107; moist when described;. few medium iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few fine roots throughout; common fine distinct 10YR52 mottles; common fine distinct 10YR56 mottles
    1BC—86 to 132 centimeters (33.9 to 52.0 inches); 40 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior and 60 percent brown (10YR 4/3) interior silty clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; weak medium angular blocky structure; extremely hard, extremely firm*, very sticky; 1 percent medium spherical iron-manganese concretions; 11 percent fine irregular gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P00108; moist when described;. few medium iron-manganese concretions concentrations; common fine gypsum crystals concentrations; few fine distinct 10YR56 mottles
    1C—132 to 152 centimeters (52.0 to 59.8 inches); 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior and 20 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior silty clay; very hard, very firm, moderately sticky; 1 percent medium spherical iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent fine irregular gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 86P00109; moist when described;. few medium iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few fine gypsum crystals concentrations