IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Harney
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985KS089013
  • User Pedon ID: 85KS089013
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0811
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57077
  • 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: 39.7122231
  • Std. Longitude: -98.1566696
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4S
  • Range: 8W
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 2540 feet North and 2513 feet East of the SW corner of the NE quarter
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS089—Jewell
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. L. Horsch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 13
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Harney
  • PSC - 33 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Harney
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Typic Argiustoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1985
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1985 (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

    argillic horizon

    0—33

    33—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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    270

    69

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    1Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak medium granular structure; soft, friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04331; dry when described;. few fine roots throughout
    1AB—18 to 33 centimeters (7.1 to 13.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silt loam; 27 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; soft, friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.; dry when described;. few fine roots throughout
    1Bt1—33 to 61 centimeters (13.0 to 24.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04332; moist when described;. few fine roots throughout
    1Bt2—61 to 86 centimeters (24.0 to 33.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04333; dry when described;. few fine roots throughout
    1BCk—86 to 102 centimeters (33.9 to 40.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04334; moist when described;. few fine carbonate concretions concentrations; few fine roots throughout; effervescence is discontinuous
    1Ck—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; massive; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 85P04335; moist when described;. few fine roots throughout; effervescence is continuous