IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Reading
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 95KS087010s
  • User Pedon ID: 95KS087010s
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 95KS087010s
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41077
  • 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: 39.0638885
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3291702
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 19 E
  • Section: 29
  • PLSS Details: 2100 feet north and 2300 feet east of the southwest corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS087—Jefferson
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS087—Jefferson County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiudolls
  • 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 - Reading
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Pachic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 43 to 93 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/7/1995
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 32.799999 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 23.6 percent of Percent sand in the control section and 63.900002 percent of Percent silt in the control section


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: very rare flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/7/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 38
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—165

    43—165

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    —122—
    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

    1

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    260

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; 24 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0862
    A—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; 25 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0863
    Bt1—43 to 76 centimeters (16.9 to 29.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; 31 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0864
    Bt2—76 to 104 centimeters (29.9 to 40.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; 5 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine faint mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent distinct clay films throughout; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0865. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 24332; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 24332
    Bt3—104 to 130 centimeters (40.9 to 51.2 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silty clay; 43 percent clay; 10 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent distinct clay films throughout; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0866. continuous - phpvsfiid 24333; continuous - phpvsfiid 24333
    Bt4—130 to 165 centimeters (51.2 to 65.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay; 46 percent clay; 15 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) fine distinct mottles; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 25 percent distinct clay films throughout; iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent fine spherical throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS0867. continuous - phpvsfiid 24334; continuous - phpvsfiid 24334
    BC—165 to 193 centimeters (65.0 to 76.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; 37 percent clay; 25 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent distinct clay films on vertical faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS0868. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 24218; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 24218