IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Smokyhill
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89KS061070
  • User Pedon ID: 89KS061070
  • User Site Association ID: Geary County, McCook-SmokyhillKS061 Geary County Type LocationsKansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 89KS061-2W
  • Transect Stop Number - 4
  • Transect Interval - 100.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 89KS061070
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40982
  • Print Date: 11/25/2024

    • 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: 38.9647560
  • Std. Longitude: -96.8853149
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 5E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 2600 ft. S. and 1500 ft. E. of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Geary County, Kansas; about 2.5 miles west and 5 miles south of Junction City; Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Mk—MCCOOK-SMOKYHILL SILT LOAMS, OCCASIONALLY FLOODED2181—McCook-Smokyhill silt loams, occasionally flooded
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS061—Geary
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS061—Geary County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38096-H8—Kansas Falls, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey over loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Smokyhill
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey over loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/1989
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 76 cm of Depth to litholgic discontinuity


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from mixed
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: fluvial terrace
  • Slope Position: depression
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/4/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 14
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    0—76

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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

    1

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    329

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    820

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    181

    11.8

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; very slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2430
    A—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; hard when dry, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; fragments; slight effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2431
    AC—36 to 76 centimeters (14.2 to 29.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2432
    2C—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # KSUSS2433