IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clime
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 88KS061014
  • User Pedon ID: 88KS061014
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88KS061014
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40960
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 38.8852768
  • Std. Longitude: -96.6730576
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 1420 feet west and 100 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: About 10 miles south and 8.5 miles east of Junction City, Knasas.
  • Map Unit: Cf—CLIME-SOGN SILTY CLAY LOAMS, 5 TO 20 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS061—Geary
  • MLRA: 76—Bluestem Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS061—Geary County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. Campbell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Udorthentic Haplustolls
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clime
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, mesic Udorthentic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey residuum weathered from calcareous shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: very high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent at 84cm
  • Surface Fragments: 1.00 percent nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 250- to 920-millimeter limestone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 23
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    paralithic contact

    0—66

    76—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

    30

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    433

    —

    135

    820

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    181

    11.8

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    A—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 5.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-100-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 6 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 5-40-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2844
    Bw—30 to 66 centimeters (11.8 to 26.0 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 5-40-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 6 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 75-100-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2845. few shale fragments less than 1/2 inch in diameter
    C—66 to 76 centimeters (26.0 to 29.9 inches); light gray (5Y 7/2), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist; silty clay; massive; hard when dry, firm; 1.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 6 percent by volume nonflat subangular strongly coherent cemented 5-40-75 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2846. 20 percent shale fragments less than 1 inch in diameter
    Cr—76 to 86 centimeters (29.9 to 33.9 inches); light gray (5Y 7/2), light olive gray (5Y 6/2), moist; weathered bedrock; fragments. calcareous, clayey shale