IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Keith
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1990KS023001A
  • User Pedon ID: 90KS023001A
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-benchmark lab pedonsmlra72-Keith lab
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 90P0795
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 62728
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 39.6305542
  • Std. Longitude: -101.4519424
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5S
  • Range: 37W
  • Section: 10
  • PLSS Details: 1600 feet N and 500 feet W of the SE corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS023—Cheyenne
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Tricks
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Keith
  • PSC - 18 to 69 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keith
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aridic Argiustoll
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1990
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture SUBClass - aridic (torric)
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1990 (actual site observation date)
  • 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—46

    18—71

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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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    1029

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    180

    48

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 5.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 90P04666. many fine and medium roots
    A—13 to 18 centimeters (5.1 to 7.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 5.5 fine and medium roots; 15 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) pressure faces on faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P04667. few pressure faces surface features on faces of peds; many fine and medium roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233619; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233619
    Bt—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; medium prismatic, and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 5.5 fine roots; 15 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) clay films on faces of peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P04668. few clay films surface features on faces of peds; many fine roots; patchy - phpvsfiid 233620; patchy - phpvsfiid 233620
    Btk—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), 20 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 80 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; medium prismatic, and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 5.5 fine roots; 15 percent faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) pressure faces on faces of peds; 30 percent fine and medium spherical carbonate threads; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 90P04669. many fine and medium carbonate threads concentrations; few pressure faces surface features on faces of peds; many fine roots; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233621; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 233621
    Bk—71 to 94 centimeters (28.0 to 37.0 inches); 30 percent brown (10YR 5/3) and 70 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/3), 30 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 70 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 5.5 fine roots; 30 percent fine and medium spherical carbonate threads and 11 percent medium irregular carbonate masses; fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # 90P04670. common medium soft masses of carbonate concentrations; many fine and medium carbonate threads concentrations; many fine roots