IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chase
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 97KS091012
  • User Pedon ID: 97KS091012
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA106 - 00KS149001-99KS149020Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 10697KS091-4350-001
  • Transect Stop Number - 2
  • Transect Interval - 45.7
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 97KS091012
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41131
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 38.9683990
  • Std. Longitude: -94.9197845
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12 S
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: northwest corner
  • Location Description: Soil sampled.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS091—Johnson
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS091—Johnson County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38094-H8—De Soto, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chase
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Aquertic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 46 to 96 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/17/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 40.700001 percent of Percent clay in the control section and 3.4000001 percent of Percent sand in the control section and 56.099998 percent of Percent silt in the control section and 45.72 cm of Depth to mottles


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: rare flooding for brief periods
  • Geology: Newman Terrace formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/17/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 8
  • 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—107

    46—160

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    —114—
    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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    244

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; 4 percent sand; 76 percent silt; 20 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1278
    A—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) silt loam; 4 percent sand; 71 percent silt; 26 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1279
    Bt1—46 to 69 centimeters (18.1 to 27.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1) and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; 3 percent sand; 55 percent silt; 42 percent clay; 20 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; 30 percent faint clay films throughout; 20 percent fine faint brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1280. continuous - phpvsfiid 23492; continuous - phpvsfiid 23492
    Bt2—69 to 107 centimeters (27.2 to 42.1 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay; 3 percent sand; 57 percent silt; 40 percent clay; 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine and medium distinct mottles; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; 30 percent distinct clay films throughout; 30 percent fine distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1281. continuous - phpvsfiid 23392; continuous - phpvsfiid 23392
    Bt3—107 to 135 centimeters (42.1 to 53.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay; 1 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 58 percent clay; 30 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) medium distinct mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 20 percent distinct clay films throughout; 30 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1282. continuous - phpvsfiid 23393; continuous - phpvsfiid 23393
    2Bt4—135 to 160 centimeters (53.1 to 63.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) silty clay loam; 1 percent sand; 63 percent silt; 37 percent clay; 40 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) coarse prominent mottles; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; 10 percent distinct clay films throughout; 40 percent coarse prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, hellige-truog. Lab sample # KSUSS1283. continuous - phpvsfiid 23394; continuous - phpvsfiid 23394