IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Mahone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 95KS155007
  • User Pedon ID: 95KS155007
  • User Site Association ID: 3367
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 95001
  • Transect Stop Number - 7
  • Transect Interval - 100.0
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • 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: 38.1143611
  • Std. Longitude: -98.0209167
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0255'S & 1920'W NE 30-T22S.R06W. Bearing 270
  • State: Kansas
  • MLRA: 79—Great Bend Sand Plains

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: RMM.,JCW.
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Mahone
  • PSC - 25 to 102 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/6/1995
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 50 Depth to loamy or clayey paleosol (inches) and 160.02 cm of Depth to sand and depth to apparent water table (inches)


    • SITE

  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/6/1995 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 11
  • 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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—38

    38—127

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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

    0

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    478

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    135

    737

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, dry; loamy sand; 4 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky parts to single grain; soft, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; dry when described;
    A—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; 11 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; moist when described;
    Bw1—38 to 84 centimeters (15.0 to 33.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; 13 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderately rapid permeability; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; moist when described;
    Bw2—84 to 127 centimeters (33.1 to 50.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, dry; fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; 5 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine and medium distinct irregular mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 1 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; moist when described;
    2Bwb—127 to 160 centimeters (50.0 to 63.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) interior, dry; clay loam; 29 percent clay; 7 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine and medium distinct irregular mottles; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 2 percent distinct pressure faces on all faces of peds; 2 percent medium irregular carbonate nodules throughout and 10 percent medium irregular lime masses throughout; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; moist when described;. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 42207; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 42207
    3C—160 to 203 centimeters (63.0 to 79.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) interior, dry; stratified coarse sand to sand; 1 percent clay; 15 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium and coarse prominent irregular mottles; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 5 percent by volume subrounded 2-39-75 millimeter mixed fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; moist when described;