IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Irwin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1986KS015003
  • User Pedon ID: 86KS015003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 87P0013
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59309
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 38.0716667
  • Std. Longitude: -96.8913879
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23S
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 85 feet north and 2190 feet east of the SW corner of the SE 1/4
  • Location Description: Near Burns in Butler County, KS.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS015—Butler
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim R. Fortner
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Irwin
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1986
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • 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—46

    10—89

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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

    3

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    457

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    90

    81

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    14

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    1Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, moist; silty clay loam; 37 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00065. few fine roots throughout
    1Bt1—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, moist; silty clay; 45 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00066. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 221256; continuous - phpvsfiid 221256
    1Bt2—23 to 46 centimeters (9.1 to 18.1 inches);, 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior and 50 percent very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior, moist; silty clay; 50 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00067. common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 221257; continuous - phpvsfiid 221257
    1Bt3—46 to 89 centimeters (18.1 to 35.0 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior, moist; silty clay; 50 percent clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots between peds; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 87P00068. Chert fragments are below 60 cm.; common clay films surface features on faces of peds; few fine roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 221258; continuous - phpvsfiid 221258
    1BC—89 to 173 centimeters (35.0 to 68.1 inches);, 60 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and 40 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) interior, moist; silty clay; 47 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 1 percent medium spherical carbonate concretions; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sedimentary, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 87P00069. few medium carbonate concretions concentrations