IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Morrill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989KS013024
  • User Pedon ID: 89KS013024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0416
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62349
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 39.8713875
  • Std. Longitude: -95.4175034
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2S
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 750 feet W and 150 feet N of SE corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS013—Brown
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Cecil Palmer
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 24
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Morrill
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Typic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 43 to 99 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/1/1989 (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
  • 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—25

    43—99

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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

    5

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    45

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P02268. common fine roots throughout
    BA—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; hard, friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P02269
    Bt—43 to 99 centimeters (16.9 to 39.0 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; clay films on faces of peds; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P02270. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233348; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233348
    BC—99 to 114 centimeters (39.0 to 44.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary.
    C—114 to 152 centimeters (44.9 to 59.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4), reddish brown (5YR 5/4), dry; clay loam; massive; hard, firm; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, hellige-truog.