IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mayberry
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990KS013005
  • User Pedon ID: 90KS013005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0633
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62559
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 39.8847237
  • Std. Longitude: -95.7694473
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2S
  • Range: 15E
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 250 feet E and 175 feet S of the NW 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, Stan Glawn
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mayberry
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Aquic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 23 to 74 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside or mountainside
  • Anthropogenic Feature: leveled land
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately 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 - 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

    argillic horizon

    0—38

    23—107

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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

    4

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    392

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    45

    89

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    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed clay loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03757. common fine roots
    Ap2—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches); 10 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) and 10 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) and 80 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) clay loam; moderate medium blocky structure; hard, friable; 2.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03758. common fine roots throughout
    Bt1—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); 40 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 60 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) clay; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 37 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03759. common clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 233522; continuous - phpvsfiid 233522
    Bt2—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); 50 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 2/2) and 50 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 37 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent by volume igneous, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03760. cracks filled with (10YR 3/2) surface material; common fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; common clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 233523; continuous - phpvsfiid 233523
    Bt3—53 to 81 centimeters (20.9 to 31.9 inches); 40 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 60 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay; weak medium prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct , moist, nonintersecting slickensides and 37 percent distinct brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P03761. slickensides tilted at 30% from horizontal, cracks filled with (10YR 3/2) surface material; common fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; common clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few nonintersecting slickensides surface features; few fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233525; continuous - phpvsfiid 233524; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233525; continuous - phpvsfiid 233524
    Bt4—81 to 107 centimeters (31.9 to 42.1 inches); 40 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 60 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 37 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter shale, unspecified fragments and 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03762. common fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; common clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few fine roots throughout; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 225325; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 225325
    BC—107 to 130 centimeters (42.1 to 51.2 inches); 20 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; 1 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) medium prominent mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 15 percent prominent , moist, manganese or iron-manganese stains and 15 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 11 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P03763. common fine iron-manganese concretions concentrations; few manganese or iron-manganese stains surface features; few clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few medium prominent 2.5Y52 mottles; patchy - phpvsfiid 225326; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 225327; patchy - phpvsfiid 225326; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 225327
    C—130 to 231 centimeters (51.2 to 90.9 inches); 33 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) and 33 percent light gray (5Y 7/2) and 34 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) clay; massive; extremely hard, very firm; 2 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter igneous, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # 90P03764. at top of layer stone line of <3 inch pebbles, few pockets of coarse sand