IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Harney
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99KS089010
  • User Pedon ID: 99KS089010
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 99KS089010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41173
  • 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: 39.6659279
  • Std. Longitude: -98.3256836
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: NE1/4 NE1/4 section 33 T4S, R9W
  • Map Unit: Hb—HARNEY SILT LOAM, 1 TO 3 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS089—Jewell
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS089—Jewell County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39098-F3—Ionia, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Harney
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/15/1999
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 183 cm of Depth to paleosol and 183 cm of Depth to discontinuity


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess derived from mixed
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: ridge
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/15/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 52
  • 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

    secondary carbonates

    paralithic contact

    0—30

    15—69

    69—127

    290—

    —30—

    —54—

    —58—

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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

    2

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    —

    475

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    225

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1787
    Bt1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 25 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1788. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 22293; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 22293
    Bt2—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1789. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 22252; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 22252
    Bt3—48 to 69 centimeters (18.9 to 27.2 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) exterior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1790. patchy - phpvsfiid 22253; patchy - phpvsfiid 22253
    Bk—69 to 127 centimeters (27.2 to 50.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) exterior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 5 percent fine and medium irregular carbonate nodules between peds; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1791
    C—127 to 183 centimeters (50.0 to 72.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) exterior, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; massive; friable; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1792
    2Bt—183 to 290 centimeters (72.0 to 114.2 inches);, brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; firm; 5 percent by volume well rounded 2-39-75 millimeter chalk fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1793. The 110-114 inches layer is a zone of mixing with the 3Cr horizon below and is where all the chalk fragments are concentrated and is also calcareous.
    3Cr—290 to 305 centimeters (114.2 to 120.1 inches); bedrock; fragments.