IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): KEITH
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1957KS109001
  • User Pedon ID: S1957KS109001
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-benchmark lab pedonsmlra72-Keith lab
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1791
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35949
  • Print Date: 11/13/2024

    • 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: 39.0050011
  • Std. Longitude: -101.0552750
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 12S
  • Range: 34W
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 507 feet N and 317 feet W of SE corner
  • Location Description: 14 miles SW of Oakley.
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS109—Logan
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS109—Logan County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Henry T. Otsuki.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - KEITH
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Keith
  • Classificaton Date - 7/8/1957
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/8/1957 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    0

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    1006

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    483

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    11.7

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    Ap1—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak very fine and fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14276
    Ap2—10 to 15 centimeters (3.9 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak coarse platy, and weak very fine and fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; noneffervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A14277
    A1—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A14278
    A3—25 to 41 centimeters (9.8 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium granular structure; hard, friable; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A14279
    B21t—41 to 56 centimeters (16.1 to 22.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; clay films; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 40A14280. patchy - phpvsfiid 196400; patchy - phpvsfiid 196400
    B22t—56 to 91 centimeters (22.0 to 35.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; clay films; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14281. patchy - phpvsfiid 196401; patchy - phpvsfiid 196401
    B3ca—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic, and moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; clay films; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14282. patchy - phpvsfiid 196402; patchy - phpvsfiid 196402
    Cca—117 to 145 centimeters (46.1 to 57.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 1 percent fine noncoherent cemented carbonate concretions; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14283
    C—145 to 178 centimeters (57.1 to 70.1 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; massive; soft, very friable; fragments; slight effervescence. Lab sample # 40A14284