IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dwight
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 87KS061360
  • User Pedon ID: 87KS061360
  • User Site Association ID: 2016
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 88KS061-9G
  • Transect Stop Number - 3
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0355
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60473
  • 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: 39.0394771
  • Std. Longitude: -96.5355799
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13 S
  • Range: 6 E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 1700 ft. S and 1600 ft. W of NE corner
  • Location Description: .
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS061—Geary
  • MLRA: 76—Bluestem Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS061—Geary County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Graber, S.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Natrustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dwight
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Natrustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 13 to 63 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/27/1987
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey residuum weathered from shale
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/27/1987 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 5
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    natric horizon

    0—33

    13—112

    —33—

    —99—
    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

    —

    —

    436

    —

    180

    820

    —

    181

    11.8

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    —

    —

    —

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bt1—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; moderate medium angular blocky, and moderate medium prismatic structure; very hard, very firm; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 15 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1) skeletans on tops of soil columns and 25 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 23138; continuous - phpvsfiid 23139; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 23138; continuous - phpvsfiid 23139
    Bt2—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 1.0 fine roots between peds; 20 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 23140; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 23140
    Bt3—51 to 84 centimeters (20.1 to 33.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 1.0 very fine roots between peds; 20 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent fine spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; clear smooth boundary. continuous - phpvsfiid 23141; continuous - phpvsfiid 23141
    Bt4—84 to 112 centimeters (33.1 to 44.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), brown (10YR 4/3) and grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 15 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent medium spherical carbonate concretions; 2 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 23142; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 23142
    BC—112 to 127 centimeters (44.1 to 50.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brown (10YR 4/3) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 2 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    C—127 to 155 centimeters (50.0 to 61.0 inches); fragments.