IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Martin
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1991KS073001B
  • User Pedon ID: 91KS073001B
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 91P0838
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 63876
  • Print Date: 2/2/2025

    • 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: 37.8647232
  • Std. Longitude: -96.3963852
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25S
  • Range: 10E
  • Section: 22
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS073—Greenwood

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Martin
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1991
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P05090. few fine and medium roots; many very fine roots
    A2—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1), very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.5 very fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P05091. many very fine roots
    Bt—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P05092. common very fine roots; continuous - phpvsfiid 234232; continuous - phpvsfiid 234232
    Bss1—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), dry; silty clay; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.5 very fine roots; 15 percent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 91P05093. few intersecting slickensides surface features; common very fine roots
    Bss2—66 to 84 centimeters (26.0 to 33.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2), olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), dry; clay; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 37 percent slickensides (pedogenic); fragments. Lab sample # 91P05094. common intersecting slickensides surface features; few very fine roots