IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nibson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2001KS167002
  • User Pedon ID: S2001KS167002
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S2001KS167002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 02N0465
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 15666
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 38.7541046
  • Std. Longitude: -98.7879028
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 15S
  • Range: 13W
  • Section: 17
  • PLSS Details: 1800 feet west and 325 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Location Description: About 9 miles south and 4 miles east of Russell, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Ns—NIBSON SILT LOAM, 5 TO 25 PERCENT SLOPES
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS167—Russell
  • MLRA: 73—Rolling Plains and Breaks
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS167—Russell County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38098-G7—Homer, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.C. Remley, W. Wehmueller, B. Tricks, J. McDowell
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic Lithic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nibson
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal, carbonatic, mesic Lithic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 0 to 36 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/9/2001
  • 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: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: concave
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent moderate weathered limestone and shale at 36cm
  • Geology: Greenhorn Formation formation of the Colorado Group group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/9/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 60
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ASER3

    BOGR2

    GUSA2

    PAVI2

    SCSC

    SOLID

    Aster ericoides

    Bouteloua gracilis

    Gutierrezia sarothrae

    Panicum virgatum

    Schizachyrium scoparium

    Solidago

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    blue grama

    broom snakeweed

    switchgrass

    little bluestem

    goldenrod

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    lithic contact

    mollic epipedon

    paralithic contact

    —43

    0—36

    36—43

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    —36—

    —7—
    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

    8

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    562

    —

    270

    660

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    174

    12.2

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    A—0 to 11 centimeters (0.0 to 4.3 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; moderate permeability; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 15.0 fine roots throughout; 3 percent by volume nonflat rounded ? to 2-? millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; strong effervescence, by hcl, 1n; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 02N02388; observed in pit, small
    AC—11 to 28 centimeters (4.3 to 11.0 inches); 80 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior and 20 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) exterior, 80 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior and 20 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; very channery loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; moderately rapid permeability; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 20.0 fine roots throughout; 35 percent by volume nonflat rounded ? to 2-? millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume flat angular 7-13-20 millimeter limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 02N02389; observed in pit, small
    C—28 to 36 centimeters (11.0 to 14.2 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) exterior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior, moist; very gravelly loam; moderate medium granular structure; slightly hard, friable; moderately rapid permeability; 15.0 fine roots throughout; 55 percent by volume nonflat subrounded limestone, unspecified fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Cr1—36 to 43 centimeters (14.2 to 16.9 inches); bedrock; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in pit, small
    Cr2—43 centimeters (16.9 inches); bedrock; fragments; violent effervescence, by hcl, 1n.; observed in pit, small