IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): CRETE
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1953KS169004
  • User Pedon ID: S1953KS169004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1953KS169004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1784
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35942
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 38.8128090
  • Std. Longitude: -97.8697891
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14S
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 0.2 mile east and 50 feet south of the NW 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 #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - CRETE
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ebenezer
  • Classificaton Date - 5/19/1953
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/19/1953 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ANGE

    BRTE

    PASM

    SPORO

    Andropogon gerardii

    Bromus tectorum

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Sporobolus

    big bluestem

    cheatgrass

    western wheatgrass

    dropseed

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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

    5

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    225

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    A11—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; weak medium platy parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 roots top of horizon; 0.5 tubular pores; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A14210. Pores are wormholes.
    A12—5 to 13 centimeters (2.0 to 5.1 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; 21.0 roots; 0.5 tubular pores; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A14211. Pores are wormholes.
    A3—13 to 22 centimeters (5.1 to 8.7 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist; silt loam; weak subangular blocky parts to weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 21.0 roots; 0.5 tubular pores; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A14212. Inconspicuous gray films on aggregates when dry; pores are wormholes.
    B1—22 to 28 centimeters (8.7 to 11.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 roots; 0.5 tubular pores; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A14213. Inconspicuous gray films on aggregates when dry; pores are wormholes.
    B21t—28 to 53 centimeters (11.0 to 20.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 roots; 1 percent fine spherical carbonate concretions; fragments; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A14214
    B22t—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 21.0 roots; 21 percent fine spherical weakly coherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; noneffervescent; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A14215
    B3ca—66 to 76 centimeters (26.0 to 29.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay; 1 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) fine and medium mottles; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 roots; 21 percent fine spherical weakly coherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; noneffervescent; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A14216
    Cca—76 to 94 centimeters (29.9 to 37.0 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; 1 percent reddish brown (5YR 5/3) fine and medium mottles; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 21 percent medium and coarse spherical weakly coherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A14217
    Ccs—94 to 109 centimeters (37.0 to 42.9 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; 1 percent dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) fine and medium mottles; weak fine and medium angular blocky structure; 0.5 roots; 21 percent coarse white (10YR 8/1) gypsum crystals, unspecified; fragments; slight effervescence; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A14218
    C—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3) and light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) and reddish yellow (7.5YR 7/6), moist; silty clay loam; weak angular blocky structure; friable; 0.1 very fine roots; fragments; very slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14219. Contains an occasional chip of sandstone.