IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sutphen
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001KS027010
  • User Pedon ID: S2001KS027010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 01N1034
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 13536
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 39.3999481
  • Std. Longitude: -97.1559830
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 7S
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 2300 feet north and 2400 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: About 2.0 miles west and 1.5 miles north of Clay Center, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Su—SUTPHEN SILTY CLAY LOAM, OCCASIONALLY FLOODED
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS027—Clay
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS027—Clay County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39097-D2—Clay Center NW, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller, C. Remley, M. Ransom
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Typic Haplusterts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sutphen
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/29/2008
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sutphen
  • Classificaton Date - 7/11/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 99 cm of Depth to discontinuity and 139 cm of Depth to redoximorphic concentrations


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey alluvium over silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: occasional ponding for brief periods
  • Geology: Quaternary Alluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/11/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 18
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - close-grown 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

    slickensides

    secondary carbonates

    0—80

    48—99

    99—

    —80—

    —51—

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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

    0.1

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    369

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    180

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    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium cloddy structure; slightly hard, friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N05244; observed in trench
    Ap2—13 to 22 centimeters (5.1 to 8.7 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 6.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 01N05245; observed in trench
    Bw—22 to 48 centimeters (8.7 to 18.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior, black (10YR 2/1) exterior, moist; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 3.0 fine roots between peds; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05246; observed in trench
    Bss1—48 to 80 centimeters (18.9 to 31.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, black (10YR 2/1) exterior, moist; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 25 percent prominent very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, slickensides (pedogenic); fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05247; observed in trench
    Bss2—80 to 99 centimeters (31.5 to 39.0 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) exterior, very dark gray (10YR 3/1) exterior, moist; silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very hard, very firm; 1.0 very fine roots between peds; 15 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, slickensides (pedogenic); 2 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05248; observed in trench
    2Btkb1—99 to 139 centimeters (39.0 to 54.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, 70 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and 30 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 1.0 very fine roots between peds; 15 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent fine spherical iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; 1 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with diffuse boundaries in matrix and 4 percent medium spherical moderately coherent cemented carbonate nodules with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 01N05249; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 198427; patchy - phpvsfiid 198427
    2Btkb2—139 to 180 centimeters (54.7 to 70.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; 10 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on vertical faces of peds; 4 percent fine spherical noncoherent cemented iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 5 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries infused into matrix along faces of peds; 4 percent fine spherical very weakly coherent cemented carbonate nodules with clear boundaries in matrix and 1 percent fine threadlike noncoherent cemented carbonate masses with clear boundaries lining pores; fragments. Lab sample # 01N05250; observed in trench. patchy - phpvsfiid 198428; patchy - phpvsfiid 198428