IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shellabarger
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 88KS155009
  • User Pedon ID: 88KS155009
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 88KS155009
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40981
  • 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: 37.8038902
  • Std. Longitude: -97.9366684
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26S
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 11
  • PLSS Details: NE1/4
  • Location Description: 0900'S & 0175'W NE 11-T26S.R6W.
  • Map Unit: 5956—Shellabarger sandy loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS155—Reno
  • MLRA: 79—Great Bend Sand Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS155—Reno County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37097-G8—Castleton, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: PBF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Udic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Shellabarger
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/20/2011
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shellabarger
  • Classificaton Date - 12/5/1988
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 22 percent of control section clay and 124 centimeters of depth to sand


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from mixed-noncalcareous
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/5/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 61
  • 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: wind and water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—33

    20—84

    —33—

    —64—
    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

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    —

    466

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    225

    737

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    A—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; sandy loam; 64 percent sand; 10 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1617; moist when described;
    Bt1—20 to 33 centimeters (7.9 to 13.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3), moist; sandy loam; 59 percent sand; 18 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1618; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 36272; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 36272
    Bt2—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; 64 percent sand; 24 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1619; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 36273; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 36273
    Bt3—51 to 84 centimeters (20.1 to 33.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist; sandy clay loam; 69 percent sand; 23 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 2 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1620; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 46881; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 46881
    BC—84 to 124 centimeters (33.1 to 48.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist; sandy loam; 50 percent sand; 16 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 4 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1621; moist when described;
    C1—124 to 150 centimeters (48.8 to 59.1 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6), strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist; loamy sand; 86 percent sand; 11 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1622; moist when described;
    C2—150 to 185 centimeters (59.1 to 72.8 inches);, brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior, moist; loamy sand; 89 percent sand; 9 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 7 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1623; moist when described;
    C3—185 to 203 centimeters (72.8 to 79.9 inches);, strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior, moist; sand; 90 percent sand; 7 percent clay; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUSS1624; moist when described;