IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Geary
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 89KS061256
  • User Pedon ID: 89KS061256
  • User Site Association ID: Geary County, Geary (Ge)KS061- Geary County Box SamplesKansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 89KS061-5C
  • Transect Stop Number - 2
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 89KS061256
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40987
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 10S
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4
  • Location Description: 2000 feet south and 300 feet west of ne corner sec. 1-10-4.
  • Map Unit: Ge—GEARY SILT LOAM, 3 TO 8 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 Argiustolls
  • 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 - Geary
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Classificaton Date - 1/3/1989
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • 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: middle 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: 1/3/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 2
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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—10

    10—86

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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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    375

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    225

    820

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    181

    11.8

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; soft; 5.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2878
    Bt1—10 to 30 centimeters (3.9 to 11.8 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2879
    Bt2—30 to 64 centimeters (11.8 to 25.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2880
    Bt3—64 to 86 centimeters (25.2 to 33.9 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard; 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2881
    BC—86 to 122 centimeters (33.9 to 48.0 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) silty clay loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 fine low-continuity discontinuous tubular pores; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2882
    C—122 to 183 centimeters (48.0 to 72.0 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) silt loam; massive; slightly hard; 1.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS2883