IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Muir
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2009KS157003
  • User Pedon ID: S09KS157003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 09N0218
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 23962
  • Print Date: 2/2/2025

    • 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: 39.8996925
  • Std. Longitude: -97.8147202
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 2 S.
  • Range: 4 W.
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 230' south and 1340' east of the NW1/4 corner
  • Map Unit: 3775—Muir silt loam, rarely 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, T. Labenz, D. Wood, J. Gienger, and C. Watts
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Muir
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/2008
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - tenth edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 16.84 percent of Control Section Clay


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: very rare flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/6/2008 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 17
  • 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

    lithologic discontinuity

    redox concentrations

    secondary carbonates

    argillic horizon

    0—99

    33—145

    99—200

    145—200

    145—200

    —99—

    —145—

    —200—

    —200—

    —200—
    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

    —

    —

    461

    —

    270

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    —

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    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; very fine sandy loam; 12 percent clay; strong medium platy parts to strong fine platy structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 4.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N01420; observed in pit, small
    Ap2—13 to 23 centimeters (5.1 to 9.1 inches);, black (10YR 2/1) crushed, moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular and 1.0 medium moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N01421; observed in pit, small
    Bw—23 to 33 centimeters (9.1 to 13.0 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 5.0 very fine roots throughout; 2.0 medium moderate-continuity dendritic tubular and 2.0 fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N01422; observed in pit, small
    2Ab—33 to 62 centimeters (13.0 to 24.4 inches);, black (10YR 2/1) crushed, moist; silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 4.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 medium moderate-continuity dendritic tubular and 3.0 fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent fine spherical worm casts throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 09N01423; observed in pit, small
    2Bwb1—62 to 79 centimeters (24.4 to 31.1 inches);, black (10YR 2/1) crushed, moist; silt loam; 15 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 3.0 medium moderate-continuity dendritic tubular and 3.0 fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 10 percent fine spherical worm casts throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N01424; observed in pit, small
    2Bwb2—79 to 99 centimeters (31.1 to 39.0 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; silt loam; 12 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 medium moderate-continuity dendritic tubular and 3.0 fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 5 percent fine spherical worm casts throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N01425; observed in pit, small
    2Bwb3—99 to 145 centimeters (39.0 to 57.1 inches);, brown (10YR 4/3) interior, moist; silt loam; 12 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; soft, friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; moderately rapid permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 medium low-continuity dendritic tubular and 3.0 fine moderate-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 4 percent fine distinct irregular brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 3 percent fine spherical worm casts throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 09N01426; observed in pit, small
    3Btkb—145 to 200 centimeters (57.1 to 78.7 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) interior, moist; silty clay; 43 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; slow permeability; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 fine low-continuity dendritic tubular pores; 25 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent fine distinct irregular brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; 5 percent fine irregular carbonate nodules throughout and 1 percent fine threadlike carbonate masses throughout and 2 percent fine irregular carbonate masses throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 09N01427; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 435106; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 435106