IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): COLBY
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957KS075002
  • User Pedon ID: S1957KS075002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1957KS075002
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-benchmark lab pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1780
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35938
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 38.0730553
  • Std. Longitude: -101.9897232
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23S
  • Range: 43W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 185 feet E and 20 feet N of N1/4 corner
  • Location Description: 2 miles N of Coolidge.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS075—Hamilton
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS075—Hamilton County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Henry T. Otsuki.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed (calcareous), mesic Ustic Torriorthents
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - COLBY
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Colby
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/10/1957 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    BOGR2

    SPCR

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Sporobolus cryptandrus

    blue grama

    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

    2

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    1021

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    432

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    12.2

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    Ap—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; moderate fine platy structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; slight effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14176
    A1—5 to 18 centimeters (2.0 to 7.1 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14177
    AC—18 to 46 centimeters (7.1 to 18.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky parts to moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 21 percent worm casts; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14178. Worm casts are a mixture of material from above and below.
    ACca—46 to 76 centimeters (18.1 to 29.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14179
    AC—76 to 112 centimeters (29.9 to 44.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14180
    C—112 to 165 centimeters (44.1 to 65.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; massive; soft, very friable; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14181