IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Labette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 99KS161008
  • User Pedon ID: 99KS161008
  • 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 # - 99KS161008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41177
  • Print Date: 12/17/2024

    • 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: 39.1403885
  • Std. Longitude: -96.5433578
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 S
  • Range: 8 E
  • Section: 32
  • Location Description: 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 Udertic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Labette
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Udertic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/23/1999
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey slope alluvium derived from mixed over clayey residuum weathered from limestone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/23/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 32
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • 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
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    415

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    90

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    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3511
    BA—14 to 30 centimeters (5.5 to 11.8 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 2 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3512
    Bt1—30 to 51 centimeters (11.8 to 20.1 inches);, dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; 37 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 20 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3513. continuous - phpvsfiid 22182; continuous - phpvsfiid 22182
    Bt2—51 to 77 centimeters (20.1 to 30.3 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) exterior, moist; silty clay; 44 percent clay; moderate medium prismatic structure; very firm; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 25 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, clay films on faces of peds; iron-manganese concretions; 5 percent fine spherical between peds; 10 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3514. continuous - phpvsfiid 22183; continuous - phpvsfiid 22183
    2Bt3—77 to 97 centimeters (30.3 to 38.2 inches);, reddish brown (5YR 4/4) exterior, moist; very cobbly clay; 65 percent clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; extremely firm*; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 70 percent distinct dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; masses of oxidized iron and iron-manganese concretions; 15 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented light brown (7.5YR 6/4) between peds and 5 percent fine spherical between peds; 10 percent by volume subangular 2-39-75 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments and 35 percent by volume subangular 75-162-250 millimeter limestone, cherty fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3515. continuous - phpvsfiid 22184; continuous - phpvsfiid 22184
    2R—97 to 100 centimeters (38.2 to 39.4 inches); fragments.