IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crete
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89KS061003
  • User Pedon ID: 89KS061003
  • User Site Association ID: Fort Riley LCTAKS061 Geary County Type Locations
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0075
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62008
  • 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: 39.1614190
  • Std. Longitude: -96.8739246
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10S
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 1800 feet west and 500 feet north of the southeast corner
  • Location Description: 1800 ft. west and 500 ft. north of the southeast corner of section 28 T. 10 S., R. 5 E.
  • Map Unit: Cs—CRETE SILTY CLAY LOAM, 1 TO 4 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS061—Geary
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS061—Geary County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39096-B7—Fort Riley NE, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Fortner, Watts, Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 10/4/1989
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess derived from mixed
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/4/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 3
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    2

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    390

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    340

    820

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    181

    11.8

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    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; moderate thin platy structure; hard when dry, friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. 90P0497
    Ap2—8 to 20 centimeters (3.1 to 7.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; moderate thick platy, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, friable; 3.0 fine roots between peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. 90P0498
    Bt—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches);, dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 30 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay films on faces of peds; fragments. 90P0499; common cracks up to 2mm wide filled with 10YR 3/2 material; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 21503; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 21503