IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Clime
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 91KS161069
  • User Pedon ID: 91KS161069
  • User Site Association ID: Konza Prairie Research Natural Area (KPRNA)91KS161-Konza Prairie Sampled PedonsKansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 91KS161069
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41003
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 39.0805168
  • Std. Longitude: -96.5815201
  • Datum: WGS84
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS161—Riley
  • MLRA: 76—Bluestem Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS161—Riley County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39096-A5—Swede Creek, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed Pachic Calciustolls
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Clime
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed Pachic Calciustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 86 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/31/1991
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey residuum weathered from calcareous shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Blue Rapids Shale formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 2.00 percent subangular 250- to 600-millimeter limestone, unspecified,
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/31/1991 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 36
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    calcic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—43

    25—86

    86—112

    —43—

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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

    23

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    —

    391

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    242

    0

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    A—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches);, black (10YR 2/1), moist; cobbly silty clay loam; strong medium granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume angular 5-50-75 millimeter chert fragments and 20 percent by volume subrounded 75-100-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUR0148. stones have CaCO3 precipitated on the bottoms
    Bk1—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; cobbly silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent medium and coarse spherical carbonate masses; 2 percent by volume subangular 20-48-75 millimeter chert fragments and 25 percent by volume subrounded 75-150-250 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUR0149. gravel size fragments mostly below the cobble size fragments near the lower boundary of the horizon, the cobbles have CaCO3 precipitated on the bottom
    2Bk2—43 to 56 centimeters (16.9 to 22.0 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 25 percent coarse and very coarse spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUR0150
    2BCk—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches);, light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), moist; silty clay loam; massive; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent coarse and very coarse spherical carbonate masses; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # KSUR0151
    2Cr—86 to 112 centimeters (33.9 to 44.1 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments. Lab sample # KSUR0152. gray and olive calareous Blue Rapids shale