IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Pohocco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990KS013004
  • User Pedon ID: 90KS013004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0632
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62558
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 39.9930573
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3455582
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 18E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 2050 feet N and 1700 feet W of SE corner
  • Location Description: Brown County, KS
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS013—Brown
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Jim Fortner, Cecil Palmer, Ken Bowell
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Pohocco
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed Typic Eutrochrepts
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: nose slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • Microrelief Elevation: 1
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—8

    13—97

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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

    15

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    322

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    180

    89

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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silt loam; strong medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03750. many fine and medium roots
    Ap2—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; 0.5 medium roots and 5.5 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03751. few medium roots; many fine roots
    Bw1—13 to 51 centimeters (5.1 to 20.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), brownish yellow (10YR 6/6), dry; silt loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable; 0.5 medium roots and 5.5 fine roots; 15 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03752. few manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features; few medium roots; many fine roots
    Bw2—51 to 99 centimeters (20.1 to 39.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4), dry; silt loam; 30 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium prominent mottles; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable; 0.5 medium roots and 5.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine pores; 37 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; slight effervescence; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 90P03753. common manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features; few medium roots; many fine roots; many medium prominent 2.5Y62 mottles; effervescence is continuous
    C1—99 to 150 centimeters (39.0 to 59.1 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; 11 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable; 5.5 fine roots; 5.5 very fine pores; 37 percent , moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains; 1 percent medium threadlike iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03754. few old root channels 2cm diameter; few medium iron-manganese concretions concentrations; common manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features; many fine roots; common medium 2.5Y62 mottles; effervescence is continuous
    C2—150 to 170 centimeters (59.1 to 66.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; 11 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable; 0.5 fine roots; 0.5 very fine pores; 55 percent , moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains; 1 percent medium threadlike iron-manganese concretions; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03755. tubular concretions appear to follow old root channels; few medium iron-manganese concretions concentrations; many manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features; few fine roots; common medium 2.5Y62 mottles
    C3—170 to 241 centimeters (66.9 to 94.9 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) silt loam; 11 percent light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) medium and 11 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) medium mottles; weak medium prismatic structure; slightly hard, very friable; 0.5 very fine pores; 15 percent , moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 90P03756. few manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features; common medium 10YR58 mottles; common medium 2.5Y62 mottles