IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Harney
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1985KS167001
  • User Pedon ID: 85KS167001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 85P0803
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 57069
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 38.9244461
  • Std. Longitude: -98.7794418
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13S
  • Range: 13W
  • Section: 16
  • PLSS Details: 1000 feet North and 105 feet East of SW corner of NW quarter
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS167—Russell
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. A. Glaum
  • 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 #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Harney
  • PSC - 25 to 66 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: convex
  • 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—41

    25—66

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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

    —

    —

    558

    —

    90

    69

    —

    —

    12

    25

    1

    13

    24

    1

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    1Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04281; moist when described;. many fine and medium roots throughout
    1A—10 to 18 centimeters (3.9 to 7.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior, moist; silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04282; moist when described;. many fine and medium roots throughout
    1AB—18 to 25 centimeters (7.1 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 32 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04283; moist when described;. many fine and medium roots throughout
    1Bt1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 2.5 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04284; moist when described;. common very fine and fine roots throughout
    1Bt2—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 35 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 85P04285; moist when described;
    1BCk—66 to 92 centimeters (26.0 to 36.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, moist; silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 11 percent fine carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; moist when described;. common fine soft masses of carbonate concentrations; effervescence is continuous
    1C—92 to 152 centimeters (36.2 to 59.8 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; moist when described;. effervescence is continuous