IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Harney
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 92KS089001
  • User Pedon ID: 92KS089001
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 92KS089001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41006
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 3
  • Range: 8
  • Section: 21
  • Location Description: 1400 ft. W., and 1000 ft. S. of the NE corner of section 21 T. 3 S. R. 8 W.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS089—Jewell
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS089—Jewell County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic Typic Argiustolls
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Harney
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic Typic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/21/1992
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 188 cm of Depth to discontinuity and 81 cm of Depth to free lime and 188 cm of Depth to paleosol and 447 cm of Depth to shale


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess derived from mixed and/or colluvium derived from mixed and/or residuum weathered from calcareous shale
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/21/1992 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 39
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—48

    35—147

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    —112—
    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

    2

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    530

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    A—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0514
    BA—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0515
    Bt1—38 to 46 centimeters (15.0 to 18.1 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0516
    Bt2—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0517
    BC—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0518
    Bk1—91 to 109 centimeters (35.8 to 42.9 inches);, pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 5 percent fine and medium spherical carbonate nodules; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0519
    Bk2—109 to 188 centimeters (42.9 to 74.0 inches);, pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 5 percent fine irregular carbonate nodules; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0520
    2Bt—188 to 292 centimeters (74.0 to 115.0 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0521
    2BC—292 to 447 centimeters (115.0 to 176.0 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0522
    3Cr—447 to 465 centimeters (176.0 to 183.1 inches); light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4); fragments. calcareous, weathered shale