IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Huscher
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009KS157001
  • User Pedon ID: S09KS157001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0216
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23960
  • 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: 39.9366684
  • Std. Longitude: -97.8481369
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1 S.
  • Range: 5 W.
  • Section: 26
  • PLSS Details: 2520' south and 2640' east of the NW1/4 corner
  • Map Unit: 3030—Cozad-Cass soils, occasionally flooded
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS157—Republic
  • MLRA: 74—Central Kansas Sandstone Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS157—Republic County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39097-H7—Republic, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Warner, J. Anderson, G. Parks, B. Murphy, T. Labenz, D. Wood, and J. Gienger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Huscher
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Oxyaquic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/4/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 16 percent of Control Section Clay


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/4/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 10
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    secondary carbonates

    redox concentrations

    0—49

    41—200

    49—106

    —49—

    —200—

    —106—
    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

    0.5

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    447

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    315

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    Ap1—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; loam; 24 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 5.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N01404; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—14 to 25 centimeters (5.5 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; fine sandy loam; 15 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; rapid permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N01405; observed in pit, small
    A1—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) crushed, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) crushed, moist; loam; 18 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N01406; observed in pit, small
    A2—41 to 49 centimeters (16.1 to 19.3 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) crushed, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 3 percent fine prominent spherical yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, worm casts throughout and 2 percent medium prominent spherical yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, worm casts throughout; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N01407; observed in pit, small
    Bw—49 to 81 centimeters (19.3 to 31.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) interior, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior, moist; very fine sandy loam; 14 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 10 percent fine prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 2 percent fine prominent spherical very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, worm casts between peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N01408; observed in pit, small
    2Bk—81 to 106 centimeters (31.9 to 41.7 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 16 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 very fine moderate-continuity tubular and 1.0 fine moderate-continuity tubular pores; 2 percent fine prominent irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 2 percent fine prominent irregular light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, carbonate masses throughout; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N01409; observed in pit, small
    3Ck—106 to 200 centimeters (41.7 to 78.7 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2) interior, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) interior, moist; sand; structureless single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; very rapid permeability; 1.0 fine roots top of horizon; 3 percent fine prominent irregular moderately coherent cemented light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, carbonate nodules throughout; 1 percent by volume rounded 2-3-5 millimeter quartz fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 09N01410; observed in pit, small