IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Keith
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1999KS067002
  • User Pedon ID: S1999KS067002
  • User Site Association ID: mlra72-SDJR comp peds
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 00P0076
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 11584
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 37.6302220
  • Std. Longitude: -101.1966670
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28S
  • Range: 35W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 1,543 feet south, 692 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: About 2 miles east and 5 miles north of Hickok, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: 1761—Richfield silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS067—Grant
  • MLRA: 72—Central High Tableland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS067—Grant County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37101-F2—Hickok NW, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Steven P. Graber
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, brief description
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Keith
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/2014
  • Classifier - Tom Cochran
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - aridic (torric)
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Richfield
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Aridic Argiustolls
  • PSC - 20 to 71 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/14/1999
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • QC Status: level 3
  • QA Status: level 3


    • SITE

  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/14/1999 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 17
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    free carbonates

    argillic horizon

    secondary carbonates

    0—41

    20—203

    20—104

    64—203

    —41—

    —83—

    —84—

    —139—
    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

    1

    —

    —

    944

    —

    270

    483

    —

    —

    12

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    8287

    Ulysses 1 SE

    CLIM
    Ap—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak fine platy structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P00413
    A—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; weak fine platy, and moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, unspecified; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P00414
    Bt1—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P00415. continuous - phpvsfiid 1324674; continuous - phpvsfiid 1324674
    Bt2—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.6, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P00416. continuous - phpvsfiid 1324676; continuous - phpvsfiid 1324676
    Btk1—64 to 84 centimeters (25.2 to 33.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine and medium spherical carbonate nodules throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P00417. continuous - phpvsfiid 1324673; continuous - phpvsfiid 1324673
    Btk2—84 to 104 centimeters (33.1 to 40.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 10 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine and medium spherical carbonate nodules throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 00P00418. continuous - phpvsfiid 1324675; continuous - phpvsfiid 1324675
    BCk—104 to 122 centimeters (40.9 to 48.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak medium angular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 3 percent fine and medium irregular carbonate threads throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P00419
    C1—122 to 163 centimeters (48.0 to 64.2 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 6 percent fine and medium irregular carbonate threads throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, hellige-truog; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # 00P00420
    C2—163 to 203 centimeters (64.2 to 79.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; structureless massive; hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine and fine moderate-continuity vesicular and tubular pores; 1 percent fine and medium irregular carbonate threads throughout; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; strongly alkaline, pH 8.7, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 00P00421