IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Summit
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 93KS121476
  • User Pedon ID: 93KS121476
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 93KS121476
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41022
  • 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: 38.7019463
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9652786
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15 S
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet north and 500 feet west of the southeast corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS121—Miami
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS121—Miami County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38095-F1—Wellsville, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic Paleudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • 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 - Summit
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, thermic Vertic Paleudolls
  • PSC - 23 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/10/1993
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 147 cm of Depth to lithic contact


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey residuum weathered from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/10/1993 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 2
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    indurated

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—61

    23—185

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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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    283

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    270

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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0675
    Bt1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0676
    Bt2—43 to 61 centimeters (16.9 to 24.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0677
    Bt3—61 to 104 centimeters (24.0 to 40.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films throughout and distinct manganese or iron-manganese stains throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0678. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 26173; continuous - phpvsfiid 26172; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 26173; continuous - phpvsfiid 26172
    Bt4—104 to 155 centimeters (40.9 to 61.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay; brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) medium distinct and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0679. continuous - phpvsfiid 26174; continuous - phpvsfiid 26174
    Bt5—155 to 185 centimeters (61.0 to 72.8 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay; brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) medium distinct and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine faint mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; distinct clay films throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS0680. continuous - phpvsfiid 398297; continuous - phpvsfiid 398297