IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Benfield
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99KS161007
  • User Pedon ID: 99KS161007
  • User Site Association ID: 99KS161-KSU 1999 land judging contestKansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 99KS161007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41176
  • 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: 39.1381989
  • Std. Longitude: -96.5433121
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 S
  • Range: 8 E
  • Section: 32
  • PLSS Details: northeast corner
  • Location Description: SW1/4 NE1/4 section 32 T10S R8E
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS161—Riley
  • MLRA: 76—Bluestem Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS161—Riley County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39096-B5—Manhattan, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller, M.D. Ransom, J.C. Remley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Benfield
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 49 to 99 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/21/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 49 Depth to discontinuity


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from mixed and/or residuum weathered from shale
  • 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: 9/21/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 32
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

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    105 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    paralithic contact

    0—49

    24—105

    105—

    —49—

    —81—

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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

    10

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    410

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    260

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    A1—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; strong medium granular structure; firm; 1 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3526
    A2—11 to 24 centimeters (4.3 to 9.4 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, moist; silty clay; 40 percent clay; strong medium granular structure; firm; 5 percent by volume angular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3527
    Bt—24 to 49 centimeters (9.4 to 19.3 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; very gravelly silty clay; 44 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 30 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 30 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on rock fragments; 60 percent by volume angular 20-48-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3528. continuous - phpvsfiid 22230; continuous - phpvsfiid 22231; continuous - phpvsfiid 22230; continuous - phpvsfiid 22231
    2Btkss—49 to 74 centimeters (19.3 to 29.1 inches);, olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) exterior, moist; silty clay; 50 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 20 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 25 percent slickensides (pedogenic); iron-manganese concretions; 1 percent fine spherical ; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3529. continuous - phpvsfiid 22232; continuous - phpvsfiid 22232
    2Btss—74 to 105 centimeters (29.1 to 41.3 inches);, light olive brown (2.5Y 5/3) exterior, moist; silty clay; 50 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic) and 15 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent fine spherical and 10 percent fine spherical carbonate nodules; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3530. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 22235; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 22235
    3Crk—105 to 118 centimeters (41.3 to 46.5 inches); fragments.