IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): LANCASTER
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1953KS169005
  • User Pedon ID: S1953KS169005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1953KS169005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1793
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35951
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 38.8280563
  • Std. Longitude: -97.7802811
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 14S
  • Range: 4W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 175 feet north and 45 feet west of the SE corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS169—Saline
  • MLRA: 74—Central Kansas Sandstone Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS169—Saline County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Erick B. Nilson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Udic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - LANCASTER
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/2010
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Lancaster
  • Classificaton Date - 5/20/1953
  • 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: 5/20/1953 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    BRTE

    PASM

    SPCR

    Bromus tectorum

    Pascopyrum smithii

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    cheatgrass

    western wheatgrass

    sand 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

    4

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    135

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    A11—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; soft, friable; top of horizon; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A14294
    A12—3 to 14 centimeters (1.2 to 5.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; weak subangular blocky parts to moderate very fine and fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A14295
    AB—14 to 25 centimeters (5.5 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2), very dark brown (7.5YR 2/2), moist; clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak medium angular blocky structure; 21.0 roots; 21.0 pores; sandstone, unspecified fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A14296. Contains a sprinkling of small sandstone fragments.
    B21t—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4), dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist; silty clay loam, sandy clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 roots; 21.0 pores; sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A14297. Contains many sandstone fragments 1/4 to 3/8 inch in diameter.
    B22t—41 to 58 centimeters (16.1 to 22.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; weak prismatic parts to angular blocky, and very fine angular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 roots; sandstone, unspecified fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 40A14298. Contains a moderate number of small sandstone fragments.
    B3—58 to 86 centimeters (22.8 to 33.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and brown (7.5YR 5/4), strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) and brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist; sandy clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak angular blocky structure; 21.0 roots; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A14299
    R—86 to 104 centimeters (33.9 to 40.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8); 0.1 roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A14300. Common black spots and seams. Massive layered sandstone and ironstone.