IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nibson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001KS105001
  • User Pedon ID: S2001KS105001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0362
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15296
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 38.9366951
  • Std. Longitude: -98.4792557
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13S
  • Range: 10W
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 2440 feet S and 1760 feet E NW corner
  • Location Description: About 5 miles south and 5 miles west of Sylvan Grove, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Ns—NIBSON-WAKEEN SILT LOAMS, 5 TO 25 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS105—Lincoln
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS105—Lincoln County, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: C. Remley
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, carbonatic, semiactive, mesic Entic Haplustolls
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nibson
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, carbonatic, semiactive, mesic Entic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 48 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 11/6/2001
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy residuum weathered from limestone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: somewhat excessively
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent slight weathered limestone and shale at 48cm
  • Geology: Ggreenhorn Limestone formation of the Colorado Group group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/6/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 43
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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

    paralithic contact

    0—25

    48—

    —25—

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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

    4

    46

    15.2

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    A1—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; loam; 10 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine and medium distinct irregular mottles; moderate fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N01894; observed in trench. A4
    A2—15 to 25 centimeters (5.9 to 9.8 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; loam; 20 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine and medium distinct irregular mottles; strong fine granular structure; slightly hard, friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N01895; observed in trench
    Bw—25 to 36 centimeters (9.8 to 14.2 inches); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; strong effervescence; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N01896; observed in trench
    C—36 to 48 centimeters (14.2 to 18.9 inches);, 50 percent light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) exterior and 50 percent very pale brown (10YR 7/4) exterior, moist; silt loam; massive; friable; 1.0 fine roots throughout; fine distinct spherical weakly coherent cemented carbonate nodules; 8 percent by volume flat angular strongly coherent cemented 75-100-150 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N01897; observed in trench
    Cr—48 centimeters (18.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in trench