IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bucyrus
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994KS045005
  • User Pedon ID: 94KS045005
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 112 Bucyrus Newtonia project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0811
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66982
  • Print Date: 3/13/2025

    • 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: 38.8391685
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3458328
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14S
  • Range: 19E
  • Section: 18
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet south and 2000 feet east of the northwest corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS045—Douglas
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS045—Douglas County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38095-G3—Lone Star, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • 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
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bucyrus
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic Vertic Paleudolls
  • PSC - 23 to 77 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/14/1994
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/14/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 24
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    slickensides

    0—23

    28—183

    58—104

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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

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    326

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    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 20.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots throughout; 5.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06365
    A—10 to 23 centimeters (3.9 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 4/2), dry; silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 fine roots throughout and throughout; 5.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06366
    BA—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), brown (7.5YR 4/3), dry; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine and fine interstitial and tubular and 1.0 coarse interstitial and tubular pores; 1 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) iron concretions between peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06367
    Bt1—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), brown (7.5YR 4/3), dry; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; 5 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 25 percent faint clay films throughout; 1 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) iron concretions between peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06368. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 194005; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 194005
    Btss1—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), reddish brown (5YR 4/3), dry; silty clay; 43 percent clay; 5 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine distinct irregular mottles; strong medium prismatic parts to moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 8.0 very fine and fine tubular pores; 1 percent distinct manganese or iron-manganese stains throughout and 30 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) throughout and 35 percent faint clay films throughout; 1 percent fine spherical noncoherent cemented black (N 2/0) iron-manganese masses throughout; 3 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06369. continuous - phpvsfiid 194006; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180811; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180812; continuous - phpvsfiid 194006; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180811; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180812
    Btss2—79 to 104 centimeters (31.1 to 40.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; silty clay; 48 percent clay; 5 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) fine distinct irregular mottles; strong medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine interstitial and tubular pores; 5 percent prominent black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains throughout and 40 percent distinct clay films throughout and 40 percent distinct slickensides (pedogenic) throughout; 1 percent fine spherical noncoherent cemented black (N 2/0) iron-manganese masses throughout; 1 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06370. continuous - phpvsfiid 180813; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180814; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180815; continuous - phpvsfiid 180813; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180814; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180815
    2Bt1—104 to 127 centimeters (40.9 to 50.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), yellowish red (5YR 5/6), dry; silty clay; 45 percent clay; 2 percent dark reddish gray (2.5YR 3/1) fine distinct irregular mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine tubular pores; 5 percent distinct black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains throughout and 45 percent distinct dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) clay films throughout; 4 percent fine spherical black (N 2/0) iron-manganese masses throughout; 3 percent by volume rounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06371. continuous - phpvsfiid 180816; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180817; continuous - phpvsfiid 180816; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180817
    2Bt2—127 to 145 centimeters (50.0 to 57.1 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3), dry; silty clay; 45 percent clay; 2 percent very dark gray (2.5Y 3/1) fine distinct irregular mottles; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine tubular pores; 1 percent distinct black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains throughout and 35 percent distinct clay films throughout; 1 percent fine irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented black (N 2/0) iron-manganese masses throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06372. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180818; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180819; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180818; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 180819
    2Bt3—145 to 165 centimeters (57.1 to 65.0 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), reddish brown (2.5YR 4/3), dry; silty clay; 48 percent clay; 2 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) fine distinct irregular mottles; weak fine prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 5.0 very fine tubular pores; 40 percent faint clay films throughout; 1 percent fine irregular iron concretions throughout and 1 percent fine irregular black (N 2/0) iron-manganese concretions throughout; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06373. continuous - phpvsfiid 180820; continuous - phpvsfiid 180820
    2Bt4—165 to 183 centimeters (65.0 to 72.0 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6), red (2.5YR 4/8), dry; silty clay; 48 percent clay; 2 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) fine distinct irregular mottles; weak fine prismatic parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 40 percent faint clay films throughout; 1 percent fine irregular iron concretions throughout; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P06374. continuous - phpvsfiid 180821; continuous - phpvsfiid 180821
    2BC—183 to 203 centimeters (72.0 to 79.9 inches); 40 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) and 60 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) silty clay; 48 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, very sticky, very plastic; 1 percent fine spherical worm nodules between peds; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments. Lab sample # 94P06375
    R—203 to 211 centimeters (79.9 to 83.1 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 94P06376