IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Shellabarger
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1994KS177001
  • User Pedon ID: 94KS177001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 94P0806
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 66977
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 39.1208344
  • Std. Longitude: -95.8722229
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11S
  • Range: 14E
  • Section: 4
  • PLSS Details: 1400 feet North and 600 feet east of the Southwest corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS177—Shawnee
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS177—Shawnee County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-A7—Silver Lake, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: S. Scheinost
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Shellabarger
  • Taxonomic Class - Sandy, mixed Entic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 10 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/12/1994
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: concave
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/12/1994 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 14
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—48

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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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    305

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    180

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    A1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loamy sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 50.0 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06325
    A2—10 to 28 centimeters (3.9 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loamy sand; weak medium subangular blocky parts to single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P06326
    AC—28 to 48 centimeters (11.0 to 18.9 inches); 50 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed and 50 percent brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, 50 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and 50 percent brown (10YR 5/3), dry; loamy sand; single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P06327
    C1—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; loamy sand; single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P06328
    C2—66 to 99 centimeters (26.0 to 39.0 inches); 80 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) crushed and 20 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) crushed, 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 20 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4), dry; sand; single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06329. 1/2 inch thick 7.5YR 4/4 lamella(20% of horizon by volume
    C3—99 to 122 centimeters (39.0 to 48.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; sand; single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 94P06330
    C4—122 to 142 centimeters (48.0 to 55.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) crushed, light brown (7.5YR 6/4), dry; sand; single grain; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 fine and medium moderate-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent coarse irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) iron concretions between peds and 20 percent coarse irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron between peds; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P06331. loamy sand lamella about 1/2 inch thick
    2C5—142 to 185 centimeters (55.9 to 72.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) crushed, brown (7.5YR 5/4), dry; clay loam; 35 percent clay; massive; hard, firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent coarse irregular pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron concretions between peds and 20 percent coarse irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron between peds; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 94P06332. small patches of sand 1 1/2 inch in diameter in about 1 percent of the horizon
    3C6—185 to 211 centimeters (72.8 to 83.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) crushed, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dry; clay; 40 percent clay; massive; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 10 percent coarse irregular pale brown (10YR 6/3) iron concretions between peds and 20 percent coarse irregular strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron between peds; 6 percent by volume subrounded mixed fragments. Lab sample # 94P06333