IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crete
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 86KS027001
  • User Pedon ID: 86KS027001
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 86KS027001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40957
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.2300301
  • Std. Longitude: -97.1319885
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9S
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 1900 feet south and 550 feet west of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: 3825—Crete silt loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS027—Clay
  • MLRA: 74—Central Kansas Sandstone Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS027—Clay County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller MD Ransom
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 20 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/1/1986 (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
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0008; observed in push tube
    Bt1—20 to 38 centimeters (7.9 to 15.0 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0009; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 441586; continuous - phpvsfiid 441586
    Bt2—38 to 58 centimeters (15.0 to 22.8 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, moist; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 5 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, pressure faces on vertical faces of peds and 10 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium faint irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0010; observed in push tube. continuous - phpvsfiid 441587; patchy - phpvsfiid 441588; continuous - phpvsfiid 441587; patchy - phpvsfiid 441588
    BC—58 to 81 centimeters (22.8 to 31.9 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, moist; silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 5 percent medium faint irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0011; observed in push tube
    C—81 to 122 centimeters (31.9 to 48.0 inches);, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; massive; slightly hard, friable; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese nodules and 8 percent medium faint irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron; 1 percent fine spherical carbonate nodules; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS0012; observed in push tube