IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Coalvale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999KS037002
  • User Pedon ID: 99KS037002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1999KS037002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0402
  • 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: 37.5266380
  • Std. Longitude: -94.6635590
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 29S
  • Range: 25E
  • Section: 15
  • PLSS Details: 1200 feet east and 400 feet south of the northwest corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS037—Crawford
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS037—Crawford County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37094-E6—Arma, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Alan Peer, Larry Gray
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, nonacid, thermic Alfic Udarents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Coalvale
  • Classificaton Date - 7/3/2011
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Kanima
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, nonacid, thermic Alfic Udarent
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 12/6/1999
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hill
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/6/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 24
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    MELIL

    RUBUS

    Melilotus

    Rubus

    sweetclover

    blackberry

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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

    5

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    45

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    A—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dusky red (2.5YR 3/2) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.3, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P02725. rock fragments: 5% shale parachanners; observation method: pit.
    C1—8 to 84 centimeters (3.1 to 33.1 inches); dusky red (2.5YR 3/2) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) and brown (10YR 4/3) silty clay loam; massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 5 percent by volume 2-?-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P02726. concentrations: N 37 31 35.98; 60% parachanners.
    C2—84 to 117 centimeters (33.1 to 46.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; massive; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 fine tubular pores; fragments; strong effervescence; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P02727. redox: 10% 10YR 4/1 depletions; concentrations: W 94 39 48.82; 1% parachanners; buried coarse roots.
    C3—117 to 180 centimeters (46.1 to 70.9 inches); 60 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and 25 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) and 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine tubular and 2.0 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume 2-?-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 7.9, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 00P02728. rock frags: 50% parachanners; the one flag stone was surrounded by C material.
    180 centimeters (70.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 00P02729. not designated; S99KS037002a-2 parafragments sampled for BD.