IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Geary
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99KS089011
  • User Pedon ID: 99KS089011
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 99KS089011
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41174
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 39.6658859
  • Std. Longitude: -98.3261642
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: NE1/4 NE1/4 section 33 T4S, R9W
  • Map Unit: Hc—HARNEY SILT LOAM, 3 TO 7 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 - Geary
  • 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: 114 cm of Depth to paleosol and 114 cm of Depth to discontinuity


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess derived from mixed
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • 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

    0—36

    15—114

    36—213

    —36—

    —99—

    —177—
    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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    482

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium granular structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1794
    Bt—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 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 # KSUSS1795. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 22221; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 22221
    Btk1—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 10 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses and 2 percent fine spherical carbonate nodules between peds; fragments; slight effervescence; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1796. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 22222; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 22222
    Btk2—61 to 86 centimeters (24.0 to 33.9 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 20 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical carbonate nodules between peds and 5 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1797. patchy - phpvsfiid 22292; patchy - phpvsfiid 22292
    Btk3—86 to 114 centimeters (33.9 to 44.9 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent medium and coarse irregular carbonate nodules around rock fragments; fragments; slight effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1798. patchy - phpvsfiid 22251; patchy - phpvsfiid 22251
    2Bk—114 to 183 centimeters (44.9 to 72.0 inches);, brown (7.5YR 5/4) exterior and brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior, moist; clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine spherical carbonate nodules; 10 percent by volume well rounded 2-39-75 millimeter chalk fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS1799. Considered a discontinuity because of the dramatic increase in coarse fragments.
    2Ck—183 to 213 centimeters (72.0 to 83.9 inches);, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; massive; firm; 12 percent medium and coarse irregular carbonate masses between peds; 13 percent by volume well rounded 2-39-75 millimeter chalk fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # KSUSS1800