IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Ness
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1989KS081014
  • User Pedon ID: 89KS081014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89P0731
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 61831
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 37.4269447
  • Std. Longitude: -101.0355530
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 30S
  • Range: 34W
  • Section: 21
  • PLSS Details: 1925 feet S and 365 feet W of the NE corner
  • Location Description: Haskell County, Kansas near Satanta.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS081—Haskell
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: M. Ransom, J. Fortner, G. Watts
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Udic Pellusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Ness
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ness
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Udic Pellustert
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 9/1/1989
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: playa or alluvial flat
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: depression
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/1/1989 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • 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

    0—109

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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

    —

    —

    901

    —

    0

    46

    —

    —

    13

    —

    —

    14

    —

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1) crushed, moist; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine granular structure; very hard, firm; 2.5 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P04104. common fine and medium roots throughout
    A1—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silty clay; moderate medium and coarse platy structure; very hard, firm; 0.5 medium roots between peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P04105. few medium roots between peds
    A2—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 0.5 medium roots between peds; 15 percent faint very dark gray (10YR 3/1) nonintersecting slickensides on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P04106. slickensides on about 30 degrees to horizontal; few nonintersecting slickensides surface features on horizontal faces of peds; few medium roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 224355; continuous - phpvsfiid 224355
    A3—56 to 79 centimeters (22.0 to 31.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist; silty clay; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 0.5 medium roots between peds; 15 percent faint very dark gray (10YR 3/1) slickensides (pedogenic) on horizontal faces of peds and 37 percent faint very dark gray (10YR 3/1) nonintersecting slickensides on horizontal faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P04107. slickensides on about 30 degrees to horizontal; common nonintersecting slickensides surface features on horizontal faces of peds; few intersecting slickensides surface features on horizontal faces of peds; few medium roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 224356; continuous - phpvsfiid 224357; continuous - phpvsfiid 224356; continuous - phpvsfiid 224357
    AC—79 to 107 centimeters (31.1 to 42.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; 1 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; weak medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; 0.5 fine and medium roots between peds; 2.5 fine tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P04108. few fine and medium roots between peds; few fine distinct 10YR44 mottles
    2Bkb1—107 to 145 centimeters (42.1 to 57.1 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; moderate medium prismatic, and strong fine and medium angular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 0.5 medium roots between peds; 55 percent faint dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, pressure faces on horizontal faces of peds and 55 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 8/2), moist, carbonate coats on horizontal faces of peds; 11 percent fine cylindrical carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P04109. carbonate films on horizontal faces at about 30 degrees to horizontal; common fine carbonate threads concentrations; many pressure faces surface features on horizontal faces of peds; many lime or carbonate coats surface features on horizontal faces of peds; few medium roots between peds; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 224358; continuous - phpvsfiid 224359; continuous - phpvsfiid 224358; continuous - phpvsfiid 224359
    2Bkb2—145 to 175 centimeters (57.1 to 68.9 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 0.5 medium roots between peds; 55 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, pressure faces on horizontal faces of peds and 55 percent distinct very pale brown (10YR 8/2), moist, carbonate coats on horizontal faces of peds; 11 percent fine cylindrical carbonate threads; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P04110. cabonate films along faces 30 degrees to horizontal; few (10YR 3/1) Krotovina 20mm in size; common fine carbonate threads concentrations; many pressure faces surface features on horizontal faces of peds; many lime or carbonate coats surface features on horizontal faces of peds; few medium roots between peds; effervescence is continuous; continuous - phpvsfiid 224360; continuous - phpvsfiid 224361; continuous - phpvsfiid 224360; continuous - phpvsfiid 224361
    2BC—175 to 201 centimeters (68.9 to 79.1 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; hard, friable; 0.5 medium roots between peds; 0.5 medium tubular pores; 37 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, pressure faces on horizontal faces of peds; 1 percent fine cylindrical carbonate threads; fragments, by hcl, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 89P04111. few (10YR 3/1) Krotovina 20mm in size; few fine carbonate threads concentrations; common pressure faces surface features on horizontal faces of peds; few medium roots between peds; effervescence is continuous; patchy - phpvsfiid 224362; patchy - phpvsfiid 224362
    2C1—201 to 224 centimeters (79.1 to 88.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; hard, friable; 0.5 medium roots between peds; 37 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) pressure faces on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine cylindrical carbonate threads; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 89P04112. few fine carbonate threads concentrations; common pressure faces surface features on vertical faces of peds; few medium roots between peds; continuous - phpvsfiid 224363; continuous - phpvsfiid 224363
    2C2—224 to 239 centimeters (88.2 to 94.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic structure; hard, friable; 2.5 fine tubular pores; 37 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) pressure faces on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine cylindrical carbonate threads; fragments. Lab sample # 89P04113. few fine carbonate threads concentrations; common pressure faces surface features on vertical faces of peds; patchy - phpvsfiid 224364; patchy - phpvsfiid 224364