IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Cozad
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001KS029006
  • User Pedon ID: S2001KS029006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0482
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 14822
  • 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: 39.5839043
  • Std. Longitude: -97.5825577
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5S
  • Range: 2W
  • Section: 30
  • PLSS Details: S1/2 SE1/4
  • Location Description: About 1 mile west and 1 mile north of Rice, 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-E5—Rice, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W Wehmueller, P Abel, J Warner, L Gray, JC Remley
  • 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 #: 6
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Cozad
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Fluventic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/23/2001
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 54 cm of Depth to buried soil


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: coarse-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • 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: 10/23/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 12
  • 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—32

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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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    Ap1—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02470; observed in trench
    Ap2—11 to 21 centimeters (4.3 to 8.3 inches);, dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior, moist; sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02471; observed in trench
    A—21 to 32 centimeters (8.3 to 12.6 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine irregular noncoherent cemented carbonate masses on vertical faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02472; observed in trench
    C1—32 to 54 centimeters (12.6 to 21.3 inches);, brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; friable; 3 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02473; observed in trench
    Ab—54 to 74 centimeters (21.3 to 29.1 inches);, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02474; observed in trench
    C2—74 to 86 centimeters (29.1 to 33.9 inches);, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; massive; very friable; 4 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02475; observed in trench
    C3—86 to 110 centimeters (33.9 to 43.3 inches);, pale brown (10YR 6/3) exterior, moist; very fine sandy loam; massive; very friable; 8 percent medium and coarse distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02476; observed in trench
    C4—110 to 132 centimeters (43.3 to 52.0 inches);, light gray (10YR 7/2) exterior, moist; stratified stratified loamy very fine sand; massive; very friable; 4 percent fine distinct irregular noncoherent cemented light brown (7.5YR 6/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02477; observed in trench
    C5—132 to 195 centimeters (52.0 to 76.8 inches);, light gray (10YR 7/2) exterior, moist; stratified stratified sand; single grain; loose; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n. Lab sample # 02N02478; observed in trench