IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Holder
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89KS061241
  • User Pedon ID: 89KS061241
  • User Site Association ID: Geary County, Holder (Hm)Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 89KS061-3C
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Transect Interval - 100.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 89KS061241
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40986
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 10S
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 300 ft. S and 150 ft. E of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 300 feet south and 150 feet east of nw corner of sec. 24-10-4.
  • Map Unit: Hm—HOLDER SILT LOAM, 1 TO 3 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-B8—Milford, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. Campbell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • 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 - Holder
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Haplustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 1/19/1975
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty loess derived from mixed
  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/19/1975 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 1
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—76

    28—102

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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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    45

    820

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    181

    11.8

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    A—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard; 5.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2938
    Bt1—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2939
    Bt2—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard when dry; 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2940
    Bt3—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard when dry; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent fine spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2941
    BC—102 to 122 centimeters (40.2 to 48.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard when dry; 1.0 fine low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; 1 percent fine and medium spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2942
    C—122 to 183 centimeters (48.0 to 72.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; massive; slightly hard; 1.0 fine low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS2943