IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Florence
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1963KS017002
  • User Pedon ID: S1963KS017002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5192
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41889
  • Print Date: 9/24/2024

    • 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: 38.1611557
  • Std. Longitude: -96.5775223
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22S
  • Range: 8E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: 3,600 feet east and 900 feet north of the southwest corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS017—Chase
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS017—Chase County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: H. L. Penner
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Florence
  • Classificaton Date - 6/1/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: ridge
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/1/1963 (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
    • 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

    50

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    813

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    13.3

    26.1

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    A11—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; silt loam; strong fine granular, and weak fine platy structure; slightly hard, friable; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39055
    A12—8 to 33 centimeters (3.1 to 13.0 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dry; sandy clay loam; strong fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 fine roots; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39056
    B21t—33 to 51 centimeters (13.0 to 20.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; clay loam; strong fine subangular blocky structure; hard when dry, firm; 0.5 fine roots; on faces of peds; 1 percent worm casts; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A39057
    B22t—51 to 107 centimeters (20.1 to 42.1 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6), dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4), dry; coarse sand; strong fine subangular blocky structure; extremely hard, very firm; 0.5 pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A39058
    R—107 centimeters (42.1 inches); fragments. Cherty limestone with seams of nearly massive dark red clay occurring laterally and vertically.