IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Padonia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994KS013001
  • User Pedon ID: 94KS013001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0414
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66635
  • 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: 39.9638889
  • Std. Longitude: -95.4534167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1 S
  • Range: 17 E
  • Section: 13
  • PLSS Details: 2300 feet north and 400 feet west of the southeast corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS013—Brown
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS013—Brown County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Padonia
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Vertic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 10 to 60 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/18/1994
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/18/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    7

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    308

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    180

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 6.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P02664
    Bt1—10 to 36 centimeters (3.9 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 6.0 fine roots throughout; 4 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P02665
    Bt2—36 to 51 centimeters (14.2 to 20.1 inches); 50 percent dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) and 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) crushed, 50 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) and light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3) crushed, dry; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 6.0 fine roots between peds; 5 percent fine irregular carbonate nodules between peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P02666
    Bt3—51 to 64 centimeters (20.1 to 25.2 inches); weak red (2.5YR 5/2), pale red (2.5YR 6/2), dry; silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 8 percent fine irregular dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of oxidized iron throughout; 1 percent medium irregular carbonate nodules between peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P02667
    Cr1—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; weathered bedrock; 25 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) fine prominent mottles; massive; 1.0 fine roots in cracks; 50 percent prominent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) clay films on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P02668. WB=weathered silty shale; patchy - phpvsfiid 192080; patchy - phpvsfiid 192080
    Cr2—89 to 140 centimeters (35.0 to 55.1 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3), light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/3), dry; weathered bedrock; massive; 50 percent prominent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) clay films on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; 30 percent medium irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented carbonate nodules throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P02669. Highly weathered silty shale; patchy - phpvsfiid 192081; patchy - phpvsfiid 192081
    Cr3—140 to 165 centimeters (55.1 to 65.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), dry; weathered bedrock; 25 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6) fine prominent mottles; massive; 50 percent prominent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) clay films on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P02670. WB=weathered shale; patchy - phpvsfiid 192082; patchy - phpvsfiid 192082
    Cr4—165 to 180 centimeters (65.0 to 70.9 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) weathered bedrock; massive; 50 percent prominent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) clay films on lower surfaces of peds or rocks; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified. Lab sample # 94P02671. WB=weathered silty shale; patchy - phpvsfiid 192083; patchy - phpvsfiid 192083