IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cozad
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001KS029003
  • User Pedon ID: S2001KS029003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0479
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14819
  • Print Date: 12/11/2024

    • 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: 39.5655403
  • Std. Longitude: -97.3811493
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5S
  • Range: 1W
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: NW1/4 NW1/4
  • Location Description: About 1.5 miles south of Clyde, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: CA—CARR FINE SANDY LOAM, OCCASIONALLY FLOODED
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS029—Cloud
  • MLRA: 74—Central Kansas Sandstone Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS029—Cloud County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39097-E4—Clyde, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W Wehmueller, P Abel, J Warner, L Gray
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cozad
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/22/2001
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 125 cm of Depth to buried soil


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Alluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/22/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 21
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • 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

    0—52

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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

    0.5

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    389

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    135

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    Ap—0 to 29 centimeters (0.0 to 11.4 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02444; observed in trench
    A—29 to 52 centimeters (11.4 to 20.5 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02445; observed in trench
    AC—52 to 72 centimeters (20.5 to 28.3 inches);, 70 percent brown (10YR 5/3) exterior and 30 percent dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses on vertical faces of peds; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02446; observed in trench
    C1—72 to 99 centimeters (28.3 to 39.0 inches);, pale brown (10YR 6/3) exterior, moist; silt loam; massive; very friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02447; observed in trench
    C2—99 to 111 centimeters (39.0 to 43.7 inches);, light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior, moist; loamy fine sand; massive; very friable; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02448; observed in trench
    C3—111 to 125 centimeters (43.7 to 49.2 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; very friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02449; observed in trench
    Ab—125 to 138 centimeters (49.2 to 54.3 inches);, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine distinct spherical extremely weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02450; observed in trench
    C4—138 to 160 centimeters (54.3 to 63.0 inches);, grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior and pale brown (10YR 6/3) exterior, moist; stratified stratified silt loam; massive; friable; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02451; observed in trench
    C5—160 to 210 centimeters (63.0 to 82.7 inches);, very pale brown (10YR 7/3) exterior, moist; stratified stratified sand; single grain; loose; fragments; very slight effervescence, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 02N02452; observed in trench. Most of the strata are thin lenses of fine sand, there is one starta 10 cm thick of very fine sand.