IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): CRETE
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1953KS169002
  • User Pedon ID: S1953KS169002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1796
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35954
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • 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: 38.7702789
  • Std. Longitude: -97.6297226
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15S
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 2
  • PLSS Details: 0.125 mile E and 100 feet N of the SW corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS169—Saline
  • MLRA: 74—Central Kansas Sandstone Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS169—Saline County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. M. Johnson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Pachic Argiustolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - CRETE
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lockhard
  • Classificaton Date - 5/18/1953
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/18/1953 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - other
  • 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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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, friable; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A14318
    A1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam, silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A14319
    B21t—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay; moderate coarse granular structure; very hard, friable, moderately plastic; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A14320
    B22t—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium and coarse subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A14321
    B23t—48 to 71 centimeters (18.9 to 28.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silty clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, firm; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A14322. No evidence of colloidal films on aggregates.
    B3ca—71 to 102 centimeters (28.0 to 40.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm; 1 percent fine spherical iron-manganese concretions; 21 percent fine and medium spherical weakly coherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A14323
    Cca—102 to 114 centimeters (40.2 to 44.9 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2), dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist; silty clay loam, silty clay; 3 percent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) fine and 3 percent brown (10YR 4/3) fine mottles; weak medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very hard, friable; 21 percent fine and medium spherical weakly coherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence; diffuse boundary. Lab sample # 40A14324
    C—114 to 157 centimeters (44.9 to 61.8 inches); light gray (5Y 7/2), olive gray (5Y 5/2), moist; silty clay loam; 3 percent brown (10YR 4/3) fine and medium and 3 percent reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6) fine and medium mottles; weak angular blocky structure; very hard, friable; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A14325