IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dwight
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 97KS127001
  • User Pedon ID: 97KS127001
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 97KS127001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41136
  • 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: 32.5011673
  • Std. Longitude: -96.4673309
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 150 feet south and 100 feet west of the center of section 26 T17S,R8E
  • Map Unit: Dh—DWIGHT SILT LOAM, 1 TO 3 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS127—Morris
  • MLRA: 76—Bluestem Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS127—Morris County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38096-E4—Lake Kahola, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Owens
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Paleustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dwight
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Paleustolls
  • PSC - 10 to 61 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/25/1997
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: hills
  • Landform: ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/25/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 52
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—56

    10—138

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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

    1

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    1460

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    10

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    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 7.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 fine roots throughout; 9.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1308
    Bt1—10 to 40 centimeters (3.9 to 15.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, moist; silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 6.0 very fine roots between peds; 8.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 4 percent distinct white (10YR 8/1), moist, silt coats on tops of soil columns and 40 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1309. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 27276; continuous - phpvsfiid 27275; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 27276; continuous - phpvsfiid 27275
    Bt2—40 to 56 centimeters (15.7 to 22.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, moist; silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 4.0 very fine roots between peds; 5.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 30 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1310. continuous - phpvsfiid 27303; continuous - phpvsfiid 27303
    Bt3—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, moist; silty clay; moderate fine prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 3.0 very fine roots between peds; 5.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 20 percent distinct very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1311. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 27304; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 27304
    2Btk1—76 to 103 centimeters (29.9 to 40.6 inches); 70 percent brown (7.5YR 5/4) broken face and 30 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face, 70 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) broken face and 30 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) broken face, moist; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots between peds; 3.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 15 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine spherical weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/1) carbonate concretions throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1312. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 27305; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 27305
    2Btk2—103 to 138 centimeters (40.6 to 54.3 inches); 60 percent brown (7.5YR 5/2) broken face and 40 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) broken face, 60 percent brown (7.5YR 4/2) broken face and 40 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/3) broken face, moist; silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm, very sticky, very plastic; 2.0 very fine roots between peds; 2.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 40 percent prominent brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented very dark gray (10YR 3/1) masses of dark accumulation throughout; 5 percent fine spherical weakly coherent cemented light gray (10YR 7/1) carbonate concretions throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1313. continuous - phpvsfiid 27306; continuous - phpvsfiid 27306
    2R—138 to 138 centimeters (54.3 to 54.3 inches); fragments. The R horizon consists of hard limestone bedrock.