IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Darnell
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 93KS125002
  • User Pedon ID: 93KS125002
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 93KS125002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41024
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 37.2500000
  • Std. Longitude: -95.9463882
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 2600 FEET NORTH AND 100 FEET EAST OF THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SECTION 24, T. 32S AND R. 13E. SITE IS APPROXIMATELY 40 FEET SOUTH OF THE GATE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SECTION.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS125—Montgomery
  • MLRA: 84A—North Cross Timbers
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS125—Montgomery County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Owens, P. Finnell
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Darnell
  • Classificaton Date - 9/14/1993
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: s moderate weathered sandstone, noncalcareous with 10 to <45
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/14/1993 (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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—15

    15—30

    30—36

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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

    2

    76

    30.5

    287

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    70

    1016

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0601
    Bw—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 medium roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine and medium moderate-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent by volume angular 75-162-250 millimeter sandstone, noncalcareous fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0602
    Cr—30 to 36 centimeters (11.8 to 14.2 inches); fragments. fractured, paralithic Pennsylvanian age sandstone with soil material filling fractures.