IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Crete
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2000KS027002
  • User Pedon ID: S2001KS027002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01P0242
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13074
  • Print Date: 11/12/2024

    • 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: 39.2081070
  • Std. Longitude: -97.2371216
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10S
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 5
  • PLSS Details: 700 feet N and 1200 feet E of the SW corner
  • Location Description: Approximately 5 miles east and 2 miles north of Longford, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Cs—CRETE SILT LOAM, 1 TO 3 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS027—Clay
  • MLRA: 74—Central Kansas Sandstone Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS027—Clay County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39097-B2—Industry, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller, J. C. Remley, P. Abel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, superactive Pachic Argiustolls
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2003
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Crete
  • Classificaton Date - 12/5/2000
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 117 cm of Depth to paleosol


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess over clayey pedisediment
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/5/2000 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 42
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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

    argillic horizon

    0—62

    20—93

    —62—

    —73—
    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

    0.5

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    390

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    135

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    Ap1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; weak thin platy parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P01439; observed in trench
    Ap2—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; weak thin platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P01440
    Ap3—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; weak thin platy parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01P01441
    Bt1—20 to 43 centimeters (7.9 to 16.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent distinct very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist, organic stains on vertical faces of peds and 20 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P01442. continuous - phpvsfiid 170625; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 170626; continuous - phpvsfiid 170625; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 170626
    Bt2—43 to 62 centimeters (16.9 to 24.4 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and dark brown (10YR 3/3) crushed, moist; silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic) on top faces of peds and 20 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P01443. continuous - phpvsfiid 170627; continuous - phpvsfiid 170627
    Bt3—62 to 75 centimeters (24.4 to 29.5 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silty clay; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very firm; 2.0 very fine roots throughout; 5 percent slickensides (pedogenic) on top faces of peds and 15 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct irregular 7.5YR 3/6 (7.5YR 3/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P01444. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 170629; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 170629
    Btk—75 to 93 centimeters (29.5 to 36.6 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) exterior, brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, moist; silty clay; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 3.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 5 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds and 5 percent distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent fine distinct irregular yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 4 percent fine spherical carbonate nodules in matrix and 1 percent medium spherical carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P01445. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 170631; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 170632; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 170631; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 170632
    BC—93 to 117 centimeters (36.6 to 46.1 inches); 90 percent brown (10YR 5/3) exterior and 10 percent pale brown (10YR 6/3) exterior, 90 percent brown (10YR 4/3) exterior and 10 percent brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 1.0 very fine roots throughout; 1 percent fine spherical weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries in matrix and 5 percent fine distinct irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 1 percent fine spherical carbonate nodules in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P01446
    2Bt4—117 to 135 centimeters (46.1 to 53.1 inches);, 50 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) exterior and 35 percent light brown (7.5YR 6/3) exterior and 15 percent brown (7.5YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 10 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 1 percent fine spherical weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries in matrix and 5 percent medium distinct irregular strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01P01447. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 170634; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 170634
    2Bt5—135 to 200 centimeters (53.1 to 78.7 inches);, 95 percent brown (7.5YR 4/2) exterior and 5 percent dark gray (7.5YR 4/1) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine low-continuity tubular pores; 15 percent distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 2 percent fine spherical weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese concretions with sharp boundaries in matrix and 5 percent medium distinct irregular yellowish red (5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent. Lab sample # 01P01448. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 170633; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 170633
    2Bt6—200 to 230 centimeters (78.7 to 90.6 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 01P01449
    2BC—230 to 252 centimeters (90.6 to 99.2 inches); fragments. Lab sample # 01P01450
    3Cr—252 to 260 centimeters (99.2 to 102.4 inches); fragments.